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Thus the heavens and the earth were finished ,
and all the host of them .
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And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done ,
and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done .
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So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it ,
because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation .
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These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created .
In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens ,
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when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up--for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth ,
and there was no man to till the ground ;
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but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground --
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then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground ,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life ;
and man became a living being .
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And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden ,
in the east ;
and there he put the man whom he had formed .
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And out of the ground the LORD God made to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food ,
the tree of life also in the midst of the garden ,
and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil .
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A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden ,
and there it divided and became four rivers .
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The name of the first is Pishon ;
it is the one which flows around the whole land of Havilah ,
where there is gold ;
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and the gold of that land is good ;
bdellium and onyx stone are there .
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The name of the second river is Gihon ;
it is the one which flows around the whole land of Cush .
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And the name of the third river is Tigris ,
which flows east of Assyria .
And the fourth river is the Euphrates .
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The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it .
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And the LORD God commanded the man ,
saying , "
You may freely eat of every tree of the garden ;
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but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat ,
for in the day that you eat of it you shall die ."
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Then the LORD God said , "
It is not good that the man should be alone ;
I will make him a helper fit for him ."
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So out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air ,
and brought them to the man to see what he would call them ;
and whatever the man called every living creature ,
that was its name .
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The man gave names to all cattle ,
and to the birds of the air ,
and to every beast of the field ;
but for the man there was not found a helper fit for him .
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So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man ,
and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh ;
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and the rib which the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man .
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Then the man said , "
This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh ;
she shall be called Woman ,
because she was taken out of Man ."
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Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife ,
and they become one flesh .
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And the man and his wife were both naked ,
and were not ashamed .