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The History of Creation (continued) |
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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 ended his work which He
had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made. |
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And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:
because that in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made. |
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These are the generations of the heavens and of the
earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
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And every plant of the field before it was in the earth,
and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth,
and there was not a man to till the ground. |
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But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered
the whole face of the ground. |
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And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. |
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Life in God's Garden |
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And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden;
and there He put the man whom He had formed. |
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And 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 knowledge of good and evil. |
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And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and
from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. |
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The name of the first is Pison: that is it which
compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; |
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And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium
and the onyx stone. |
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And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same
is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. |
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And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it
which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. |
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And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the
garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. |
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And the LORD God commanded the man, saying,
"Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: |
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"But 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." |
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And the LORD God said, "It is
not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him." |
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And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast
of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them:
and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof. |
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And Adam 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 an help meet for him.
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And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam,
and he slept: and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; |
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And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man,
made He a woman, and brought her unto the man. |
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And Adam 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. |
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"Therefore shall a man leave his
father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh." |
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And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and
were not ashamed. |
