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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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And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
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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 a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”
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God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the third 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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And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.
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And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.
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God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.
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Adam and Eve
This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
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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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A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters.
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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 gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.)
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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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That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
