Genesis 2

1Thus were the heavens and the earth, and all that is in them, completed.

2On the seventh day God had already completed the work he had done, and on that day he rested.

3God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it he rested from all the work he had done in creation.

4This is the story of the origins of the heavens and the earth, at the time they were created:
When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

5No bush had yet sprouted in the field, and no plant had germinated, because the Lord God had not yet caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

6However, water came out of the ground and irrigated the entire surface of the ground.

7Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being.

8Now the Lord God had planted a garden in Eden, towards the east, and there he placed the man he had formed.

9Then the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground, pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the midst of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

10In Eden, a river began to irrigate the garden, and then divided into four.

11The name of the first is Pisom. He travels throughout the land of Havilah, where there is gold.

12The gold of that land is excellent; There are also bdellium and onyx stone there.

13The second, which runs throughout the land of Cush, is the Gihon.

14The third, which runs along the east side of Assyria, is the Tigris. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

15The Lord God placed man in the garden of Eden to care for it and cultivate it.

16And the Lord God commanded the man: “Eat freely of any tree in the garden,

17but do not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day that you eat from it you will surely die.”

18Then the Lord God declared: “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make for him someone to help him and correspond to him.”

19After he formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the sky, the Lord God brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and the name that man gave to each living being, that would be its name.

20So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the wild animals. However, no one was found for the man to help him and respond to him.

21Then the Lord God made the man fall into a deep sleep and, while he was sleeping, he took one of his ribs, closing the place with flesh.

22With the rib he had taken from the man, the Lord God made a woman and took her to him.

23Then the man said:
“Yes, this is bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh!
She will be called woman,
because it was taken out of man.”

24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

25The man and his wife lived naked, and felt no shame.