¶ These are the [a]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,

And every [b]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 [c]rain upon the earth, neither was there a man to till the ground,

But a mist went up from the earth, and watered all the earth.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:4 Or, the original and beginning.
  2. Genesis 2:5 Or, tree, as Gen. 21:15.
  3. Genesis 2:5 God only openeth the heavens and shutteth them, he sendeth drought and rain according to his good pleasure.

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