²⁶ Then God said, “Let ^(A)Us make ^(B)man in Our image, according to Our likeness, so that they will have ^(C)dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the ^[a]sky and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” ²⁷ And God created man ^(D)in His own image, in the image of God He created him; ^(E)male and female He created them. ²⁸ God blessed them, and God said to them, “^(F)Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the ^[b]sky and over every living thing that creeps on the earth.” ²⁹ Then God said, “Behold, ^(G)I have given to you every plant yielding seed that is on the ^[c]surface of all the earth, and every tree ^[d]which has the fruit of the tree yielding seed; it shall be food for you; ³⁰ and ^(H)to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the ^[e]sky and to every thing that creeps on the earth ^[f]which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.

¹⁶ And Yahweh God ^(A)commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may surely eat; ¹⁷ but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat from it; for in the day that you eat from it ^(B)you will surely die.”

¹⁸ Then Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; ^(C)I will make him a helper ^[a]suitable for him.” ^19 (D)And out of the ground Yahweh God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the ^[b]sky, and He ^(E)brought each to the man to see what he would call it; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. ²⁰ And the man gave names to all the cattle and to the birds of the ^[c]sky and to every beast of the field; but for ^[d]Adam there was not found ^(F)a helper ^[e]suitable for him. ²¹ So Yahweh God caused a ^(G)deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. ²² And Yahweh God ^[f]fashioned ^(H)the rib, which He had taken from the man, into a woman, and He brought her to the man. ²³ Then the man said,

^24 (J)Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and cleave to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. ^25 (K)And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.