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The First Book of Moses: Called Genesis, Chapter 2
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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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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.
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