⁶ But ^(A)from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them ^(B)male and female.’

² Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man^[a] when they were created.

^4 (A)They will say, “Where is the promise of ^(B)his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.”

¹⁹ For in those days there will be ^(A)such ^(B)tribulation as has not been ^(C)from the beginning of the creation that ^(D)God created until now, and never will be.

^14 (A)But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the Lord ^(B)was witness between you and the wife of your youth, ^(C)to whom ^(D)you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant. ^15 (E)Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union?^[a] And what was the one God^[b] seeking?^{[c] (F)}Godly offspring. So guard yourselves^[d] in your spirit, and let none of you be ^(G)faithless to the wife of your youth. ¹⁶ “For ^(H)the man who does not love his wife but divorces her,^[e] says the Lord, the God of Israel, covers^[f] his garment with violence, says the Lord of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and ^(I)do not be faithless.”

²⁰ The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam^[a] there was not found a helper fit for him. ²¹ So the Lord God caused a ^(A)deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh. ²² And the rib that the Lord God had taken from the man he made^[b] into a woman and brought her to the man. ²³ Then the man said,

The Creation of the World

1 In the ^(A)beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.