Genesis 2:4-7

Contemporary English Version

⁴ That's how God created the heavens and the earth.

The Garden of Eden

When the Lord God made the heavens and the earth, ⁵ no grass or plants were growing anywhere. God had not yet sent any rain, and there was no one to work the land. ⁶ But streams^[a] came up from the ground and watered the earth.

^7 (A) The Lord God took some soil from the ground and made a man.^[b] God breathed life into the man, and the man started breathing.