Genesis 2:4-14

Christian Standard Bible

Man and Woman in the Garden

⁴ These are the records^(A) of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation. At the time^[a] that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, ⁵ no shrub of the field^(B) had yet grown on the land,^[b] and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground. ⁶ But mist would come up from the earth and water all the ground. ⁷ Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground^(C) and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils,^(D) and the man became a living being.^(E)

⁸ The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east,^(F) and there he placed the man he had formed. ⁹ The Lord God caused to grow out of the ground every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden,^(G) as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.^(H)

¹⁰ A river went^[c] out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers.^{[d] 11} The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah,^[e](I) where there is gold. ¹² Gold from that land is pure;^[f] bdellium^[g] and onyx^[h] are also there. ¹³ The name of the second river is Gihon, which flows through the entire land of Cush. ¹⁴ The name of the third river is Tigris,^(J) which runs east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.^(K)