Genesis 2
1 That is the way God created the heavens and the earth.
And the heaven and the earth and all things in them were complete.
2 By the time it was the seventh day, God had finished the work of creating everything, so he did not work any more on that day.
And on the seventh day God came to the end of all his work; and on the seventh day he took his rest from all the work which he had done.
3 God blessed each seventh day, and he set those days apart to be special days, because on the seventh day God did not work any more, after finishing all his work of creating everything.
And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.
4 That is how God created the heavens and the earth. God, whose name is Yahweh, made the heavens and the earth.
These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.
5 At first there were no plants growing, because Yahweh God had not yet caused rain to fall on the ground. Furthermore, there was no one to till the ground for planting crops.
In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.
6 Instead, mist rose up from the ground, so that it watered the surface of the ground.
But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land.
7 Then Yahweh God took some soil and formed a man. He breathed into the man’s nostrils his own breath that gives life, and as a result the man became a living person.
And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
8 Yahweh God made a park/garden in a place named Eden, which was east of the land of Canaan, and he put there the man that he had created.
And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.
9 Yahweh God also put there every kind of tree that is beautiful to see and that produced fruit that was good to eat. He also placed in the middle of the park/garden a tree [whose fruit would enable those who ate it] to live forever. He also placed there another tree whose fruit would enable those who ate it to know what actions were good [to do] and what actions were evil [to do].
And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 A river flowed from Eden to provide water for the park/garden. Outside of Eden, the river divided into four rivers.
And a river went out of Eden giving water to the garden; and from there it was parted and became four streams.
11 The name of the first river is Pishon. That river flows through all the land of Havilah, where there is gold.
The name of the first is Pishon, which goes round about all the land of Havilah where there is gold.
12 That gold (is very pure/has no impurities in it). There is [also a sweet-smelling gum called] bdellium, and valuable stones called onyx.
And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 The name of the second river is Gihon. That river flows through all the land of Cain.
And the name of the second river is Gihon: this river goes round all the land of Cush.
14 The name of the third river is Tigris. It flows east of [the city of] Asshur. The name of the fourth river is Euphrates.
And the name of the third river is Tigris, which goes to the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
15 Yahweh God took the man and put him in Eden park/garden to till/cultivate it and take care of it.
And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.
16 But Yahweh said to him, “You must not eat the fruit of the tree that will enable you to know what actions are good to do and what actions are evil to do. If you eat any fruit from that tree, on that day your relationship with me will end. But I will permit you to eat the fruit of any of the other trees in the park/garden.”
And the Lord God gave the man orders, saying, You may freely take of the fruit of every tree of the garden:
But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.
18 Then Yahweh God said, “It is not good for this man to be alone. So I will make someone who will be a suitable partner for him.”
And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him
19 Yahweh God had taken some soil and had formed from it all kinds of animals and birds, and he brought them to the man to hear what names he would give them.
And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.
20 Then the man gave names to all the kinds of livestock and birds and wild animals, but none of these creatures was a partner that was suitable for the man.
And the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to every beast of the field; but Adam had no one like himself as a help.
21 So Yahweh God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man was sleeping, Yahweh took out one of the man’s ribs. Then he immediately closed the opening in his body [and healed it].
And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place:
22 Yahweh then made a woman from the rib that he had taken from the man’s body, and he brought her to the man.
And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man.
23 The man exclaimed, “[Wow]! This is truly (someone like me/what I was looking for!) She is truly from my bones and from my flesh. So I will call her woman, because she was taken from me, a man.”
And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.
24 [The first woman was taken from the man’s body, ] so that is why when a man and a woman marry, they must leave their parents. The man will join very closely to his wife, so that the two of them will be as though they are one person.
For this cause will a man go away from his father and his mother and be joined to his wife; and they will be one flesh.
25 Although the man and his wife were naked, they were not ashamed about that.
And the man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no sense of shame.
