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Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.
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The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
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So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
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Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
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By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
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Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
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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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The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
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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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That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
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Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
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Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
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And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; he will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”
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Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.
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The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.
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And the Lord God said, “The man has now become like one of us, knowing good and evil. He must not be allowed to reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat, and live forever.”
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So the Lord God banished him from the Garden of Eden to work the ground from which he had been taken.
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Cain and Abel
Adam made love to his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. She said, “With the help of the Lord I have brought forth a man.”
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Later she gave birth to his brother Abel. Now Abel kept flocks, and Cain worked the soil.
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And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The Lord looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
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but on Cain and his offering he did not look with favor. So Cain was very angry, and his face was downcast.
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Now Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let’s go out to the field.” While they were in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.
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When you work the ground, it will no longer yield its crops for you. You will be a restless wanderer on the earth.”
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Cain made love to his wife, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Enoch. Cain was then building a city, and he named it after his son Enoch.
