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Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
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God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
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And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, and days and years,
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God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
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to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good.
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God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”
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God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
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Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,
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Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
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Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
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The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
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The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush.
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The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
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but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
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The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
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Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
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So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
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The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.”
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Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
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The Fall
Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”
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but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”
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“You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.
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Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
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He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.”
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And he said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
