Genesis 2:1-9 ▼

1 With this the heavens and the earth were completed, including all of their vast array.

2 By the seventh day God had completed the work he had been doing, so on the seventh day he stopped working on everything that he had done.

3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God stopped working on everything that he had been creating.

4 These are the records of the universe at its creation. On the day that the LORD God made the earth and skies,

5 no shrubs had yet grown in the meadows of the earth and no vegetation had sprouted, because the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there were no human beings to work the ground.

6 Instead, an underground stream would arise out of the earth and water the surface of the ground.

7 So the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground, breathed life into his lungs, and the man became a living being.

8 The LORD God planted a garden in Eden, toward the east, where he placed the man whom he had formed.

9 The LORD God caused every tree that is both beautiful and suitable for food to spring up out of the ground. The tree of life was also in the middle of the garden, along with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.