2 Thus HaShomayim and Ha’Aretz were finished, and all the tza’va of them.

² And on Yom HaShevi’i Elohim finished His work which He had made; and He rested on the Yom HaShevi’i from all His work which He had made.

³ Vayevarech Elohim et Yom HaShevi’i, and set it apart as kadosh: because that in it shavat (He had rested) from all His work which bara Elohim (G-d created) and made.

⁴ These are the toldot of HaShomayim and of Ha’Aretz when they were created, in the Yom that Hashem Elohim made Eretz v’Shomayim,

⁵ And every plant of the sadeh was not yet in ha’aretz, and every herb of the sadeh had not yet yitzmach (sprung up, T.N. Moshiach is Tzemach [Zecharyah 3:8]); for Hashem Elohim had not caused it to rain upon ha’aretz, and there was not an adam (man) la’avod (to till, to work) haadamah (the ground).

⁶ But there went up a mist from ha’aretz, and watered the whole face of the adamah.

⁷ And Hashem Elohim formed the adam of the aphar min haadamah, and breathed into his nostrils the nishmat chayyim; and the adam became a nefesh chayyah.

⁸ And Hashem Elohim planted a gan (garden) eastward in Eden; and there He put the adam whom He had formed.

⁹ And out of the adamah made Hashem Elohim to spring up (T.N. see verse 5) kol etz (every tree) that is pleasing to the sight, and tov for food; the Etz HaChayyim (Tree of Life) also in the midst of the gan (garden), and the Etz HaDa’as Tov v’Rah (see 3:22, i.e., representing moral autonomy; contrast Exodus 9:20-21 where the Dvar Hashem is the guide of life, even for Gentiles).

¹⁰ And a nahar (river) flowed out of Eden to water the gan (garden); and from there it divided, and became four headwaters.

¹¹ The shem of the first is Pishon; that is it which winds through the kol eretz Chavilah, where there is zahav;

¹² And the zahav of that land is tov; there is [the gemstone] bedolach and the even (gemstone) hashoham [T.N.: this onyx gemstone is used in the construction of the Kohen Gadol’s Bigdei HaKodesh].

¹³ And the shem of the second nahar is Gihon; the same is it that winds through kol eretz Cush.

¹⁴ And the shem of the third nahar is Chiddekel (Tigris [see Daniel 10:4]): that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth nahar is Euphrates.

¹⁵ And Hashem Elohim took the adam and put him in the Gan Eden la’avod (to till, to work) it and to be shomer over it.

¹⁶ And Hashem Elohim commanded the adam, saying, Of every etz of the gan thou mayest freely eat;

¹⁷ But of the Etz HaDa’as Tov v’Rah, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the yom that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

¹⁸ And Hashem Elohim said, It is not tov that the adam should be alone; I will make him an ezer (a helper) suitable for him.

¹⁹ And out of the adamah Hashem Elohim formed every beast of the sadeh, and every oph HaShomayim; and brought them unto the adam to see what he would name them; and whatsoever the adam named kol nefesh chayyah, that was shmo.

²⁰ And the adam gave shemot to all behemah, and to the oph HaShomayim, and to every beast of the sadeh; but for Adam there was not found an ezer for him.

²¹ And Hashem Elohim caused a tardemah (deep sleep) to fall upon the adam, and he slept; and He took from one of his tzalelot (sides, ribs), and closed up the basar in the place thereof;

²² And the tzela (rib), which Hashem Elohim had taken from the adam, made He an isha, and brought her unto the adam.

²³ And the adam said, This is now etzem of my etzem, and basar of my basar; she shall be called Isha, because she was taken out of Ish.

²⁴ Therefore shall an ish leave his av and his em, and shall cleave unto his isha: and they shall be basar echad.

²⁵ And they were both arummim (naked ones), the adam and his isha, and were not ashamed.