Genesis 2:4-9

English Standard Version

The Creation of Man and Woman

⁴^(A)These are the generations
of the heavens and the earth when they were created,
in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

⁵When no ^(B)bush of the field^[a] was yet in the land^[b] 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 ^(C)to work the ground, ⁶and a mist^[c] was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— ⁷then the Lord God formed the man of ^(D)dust from the ground and ^(E)breathed into his ^(F)nostrils the breath of life, and ^(G)the man became a living creature. ⁸And the Lord God planted a ^(H)garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. ⁹And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. ^(I)The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, ^(J)and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.