Genesis 2:1-10 ▼

1 And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host;

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.

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.

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;

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,

6 and a mist goes up from the earth, and has watered the whole face of the ground.

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.

8 And YHWH God plants a garden in Eden, at the east, and He sets there the man whom He has formed;

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.

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];