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When no bush of the field was yet in the land and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground,
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then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
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but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
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Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
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Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.
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The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.
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And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.
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The Fall
Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God actually say, ‘You shall not eat of any tree in the garden’?”
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but God said, ‘You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’”
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But the serpent said to the woman, “You will not surely die.
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He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
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And to Adam he said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, ‘You shall not eat of it’, cursed is the ground because of you; in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
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Then the Lord God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us in knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live for ever—”
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Cain and Abel
Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain, saying, “I have produced a man with the help of the Lord.”
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And again, she bore his brother Abel. Now Abel was a keeper of sheep, and Cain a worker of the ground.
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but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell.
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If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.”
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Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother's keeper?”
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And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
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When you work the ground, it shall no longer yield to you its strength. You shall be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
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Then the Lord said to him, “Not so! If anyone kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” And the Lord put a mark on Cain, lest any who found him should attack him.
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Then Cain went away from the presence of the Lord and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
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Adam's Descendants to Noah
This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.
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Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him.
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and called his name Noah, saying, “Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands.”