8And
the LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden; and there He put the man
whom He had formed. 9And
out of the ground made the LORD God 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. 10And
a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted,
and became four heads.
11The
name of the first is Pishon; that is it which compasseth the whole land
of Havilah, where there is gold; 12and
the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13And
the name of the second river is Gihon; the same is it that compasseth the
whole land of Cush. 14And
the name of the third river is Tigris; that is it which goeth toward the
east of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. 15And
the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress
it and to keep it.
16And the LORD God commanded the man, saying: 'Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat; 17but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.'
18And the LORD God said: 'It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.' 19And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto the man to see what he would call them; and whatsoever the man would call every living creature, that was to be the name thereof. 20And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a help meet for him.
21And
the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; and
He took one of his ribs,
and closed up the place with flesh instead thereof. 22And
the rib, which
the LORD God had taken from the man, made He a woman, and brought her unto
the man. 23And
the man said: 'This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she
shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.' 24Therefore
shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his
wife, and they shall be one flesh. 25And
they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.