⁷ Then the Lord God formed the man of ^(A)dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the ^(B)man became a living ^[a]person. ⁸ The Lord God planted a ^(C)garden toward the east, in Eden; and there He placed the man whom He had formed.

¹⁵ Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and tend it. ¹⁶ The Lord God ^(A)commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may freely eat; ¹⁷ but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not ^[a]eat, for on the day that you eat from it ^(B)you will certainly die.”

¹⁸ Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; ^(C)I will make him a helper ^[b]suitable for him.” ^19 (D)And out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the sky, and ^(E)brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. ²⁰ The man gave names to all the livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field, but for ^[c]Adam there was not found ^(F)a helper ^[d]suitable for him. ²¹ So the Lord God caused a ^(G)deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. ²² And the Lord God ^[e]fashioned into a woman ^(H)the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. ²³ Then the man said,

²⁰ Now the man named his wife ^[a](A)Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.