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- And the heaven and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
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- And on the seventh day God finished His work which He had made;
and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.
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- And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it;
because that in it He rested from all His work which God in creating had made.
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- These are the generations of the heaven and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made earth and heaven.
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- No shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up;
for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground;
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- but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
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- Then the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became a living soul.
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- And the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden;
and there He put the man whom He had formed.
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- And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food;
the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
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- And a river went out of Eden to water the garden;
and from thence it was parted, and became four heads.
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- The name of the first is Pishon;
that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
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- and the gold of that land is good;
there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
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- And the name of the second river is Gihon;
the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Cush.
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- And the name of the third river is Tigris;
that is it which goeth toward the east of Asshur.
And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
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- And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
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- And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat;
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- but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it;
for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
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- And the LORD God said: "It is not good that the man should be alone;
I will make him a help meet for him."
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- And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air;
and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them;
and whatsoever the man would call every living creature, that was to be the name thereof.
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- And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field;
but for Adam there was not found a help meet for him.
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- And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept;
and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the place with flesh instead thereof.
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- And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from the man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man.
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- And the man said: "This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man."
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- Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.
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- And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
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