Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their multitude.
These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they came to be.
Another Account of the Creation
In the day that the earth and the heavens came, when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up — for it had not yet rained upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground; but a stream would rise from the earth, and water the whole face of the ground - then man formed from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being. And there was a garden in Eden, in the east; and there the man was. Out of the ground grew 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.
A river flows out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it divides and becomes four branches. The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; and the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one that flows around the whole land of Cush. The name of the third river is Tigris, which flows east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
The man was in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it. He ate of every tree of the garden; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil he did not eat, for the day that he ate of it he would die.
It was not good that the man should be alone; he need a helper as his partner. Out of the ground formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. The man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the air, and to every animal of the field; but for the man* there was not found a helper as his partner. A deep sleep fell upon the man, and he slept; then one of his ribs left his body and its place closed up with flesh. And from the rib which had come from the man formed a woman. Then the man said,
‘This at last is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
this one shall be called Woman,*
for out of Man* this one was taken.’
Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked, and were not ashamed.
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