Genesis 2
1 And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host;
The creation of the heavens, the earth, and everything in them was complete.
2 and God completes by the seventh day His work which He has made, and ceases by the seventh day from all His work which He has made.
By the time the seventh day came, God had finished the work he'd done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work he'd been doing.
3 And God blesses the seventh day, and sanctifies it, for in it He has ceased from all His work which God had created for making.
God blessed the seventh day, and set it apart as holy, because he rested from all the work he'd done in creation.
4 These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth in their being created, in the day of YHWH God’s making the earth and the heavens;
This is the account of the Lord God's creation when he made the heavens and the earth.
5 and no shrub of the field is yet in the earth, and no herb of the field yet sprouts, for YHWH God has not rained on the earth, and there is not a man to serve the ground,
Up to this point there were no wild plants or crops growing on the earth, because the Lord God hadn't sent rain, and there was no one to cultivate the ground.
6 and a mist goes up from the earth, and has watered the whole face of the ground.
Dew came up from the earth and made the whole surface of the ground wet.
7 And YHWH God forms the man—dust from the ground, and breathes into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becomes a living creature.
The Lord God shaped the man Adam from the dust of the ground. He breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and Adam became a living being.
8 And YHWH God plants a garden in Eden, at the east, and He sets there the man whom He has formed;
The Lord planted a garden in Eden, in the east. There he put the man Adam he had created.
9 and YHWH God causes to sprout from the ground every tree desirable for appearance, 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.
The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow in the garden, beautiful trees and trees producing fruit that's good to eat. The tree of life was in the middle of the garden, along with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 And a river is going out from Eden to water the garden, and from there it is parted, and has become four chief [rivers];
A river flowed out from Eden to water the garden. From there it split into four branches.
11 the name of the first [is] Pison, it [is] that which is surrounding the whole land of Havilah where the gold [is],
The first branch was called the Pishon and it flowed through the whole land of Havilah, where gold is found.
12 and the gold of that land [is] good; the bdellium and the shoham stone [are] there;
(The gold from that land is pure. Bdellium and onyx stone are also found there.)
13 and the name of the second river [is] Gihon, it [is] that which is surrounding the whole land of Cush;
The second branch was called the Gihon and it flowed through the whole land of Cush.
14 and the name of the third river [is] Hiddekel, it [is] that which is going east of Asshur; and the fourth river is the Euphrates.
The third branch was called the Tigris and it flowed east of the city of Asshur. The fourth branch was called the Euphrates.
15 And YHWH God takes the man, and causes him to rest in the Garden of Eden, to serve it and to keep it.
The Lord God put the man in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and care for it.
16 And YHWH God lays a charge on the man, saying, “From every tree of the garden eating you eat;
The Lord God ordered Adam, “You are free to eat fruit from every tree in the garden,
17 but from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, you do not eat from it, for in the day of your eating from it—dying you die.”
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because the day you eat from it you are certain to die.”
18 And YHWH God says, “[It is] not good for the man to be alone; I make him a helper as his counterpart.”
Then the Lord God said, “It's not good for Adam to be alone. I will make someone to help him, someone that's like him.”
19 And YHWH God forms from the ground every beast of the field, and every bird of the heavens, and brings [them] to the man, to see what he calls it; and whatever the man calls a living creature, that [is] its name.
The Lord God used the ground to make all the wild animals, and all the birds. He took them all to Adam to see what he would call them, and Adam named every living creature.
20 And the man calls names to all the livestock, and to bird of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man a helper has not been found as his counterpart.
Adam gave names to all the livestock, all the birds, and all the wild animals. But Adam didn't find anyone like him who could help him.
21 And YHWH God causes a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he sleeps, and He takes one of his ribs, and closes up flesh in its stead.
So the Lord God put Adam into a deep sleep and as he slept the Lord God removed one of Adam's ribs and closed up the place where he took it with body tissue.
22 And YHWH God builds up the rib which He has taken out of the man into a woman, and brings her to the man;
The Lord God made a woman, using the rib he'd taken from Adam, and presented her to Adam.
23 and the man says, “This at last! Bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh!” For this is called Woman, for this has been taken from Man;
“Finally!” said Adam. “Here is bone from my bone and flesh from my flesh. She shall be called woman, because she was taken out of man.”
24 therefore a man leaves his father and his mother, and has cleaved to his wife, and they have become one flesh.
This is the reason a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two become one being.
25 And both of them are naked, the man and his wife, and they are not ashamed of themselves.
Adam and his wife Eve were both naked, but they weren't embarrassed about it.
