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- And the heavens and the earth and all their host were finished.
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- And God had finished on the seventh day 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 on it he rested from all his work which God had created in making it.
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- These are the histories of the heavens and the earth, when they were created, in the day that Jehovah Elohim made earth and heavens,
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- and every shrub of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew;
for Jehovah Elohim had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.
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- But a mist went up from the earth, and moistened the whole surface of the ground.
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- And Jehovah Elohim formed Man, dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and Man became a living soul.
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- And Jehovah Elohim planted a garden in Eden eastward, and there put Man whom he had formed.
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- And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food;
and the tree of life, 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 main streams.
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- The name of the one is Pison: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Havilah, where the gold is.
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- And the gold of that land is good;
bdellium and the onyx stone are there.
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- And the name of the second river is Gihon: that is it which surrounds the whole land of Cush.
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- And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which flows forward toward Asshur.
And the fourth river, that is Euphrates.
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- And Jehovah Elohim took Man, and put him into the garden of Eden, to till it and to guard it.
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- And Jehovah Elohim commanded Man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou shalt 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 of it thou shalt certainly die.
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- And Jehovah Elohim said, It is not good that Man should be alone;
I will make him a helpmate, his like.
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- And out of the ground Jehovah Elohim had formed every animal of the field and all fowl of the heavens, and brought [them] to Man, to see what he would call them;
and whatever Man called each living soul, that was its name.
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- And Man gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the heavens, and to every beast of the field;
but as for Adam, he found no helpmate, his like.
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- And Jehovah Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Man;
and he slept. And he took one of his ribs and closed up flesh in its stead.
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- And Jehovah Elohim built the rib that he had taken from Man into a woman;
and brought her to Man.
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- And Man said, This time it is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh: this shall be called Woman, because this was taken out of a man.
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- Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife;
and they shall become one flesh.
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- And they were both naked, Man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
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