²⁸ God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth,^(A) and subdue it. Rule the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and every creature that crawls^[a] on the earth.” ²⁹ God also said, “Look, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the surface of the entire earth and every tree whose fruit contains seed. This food will be for you,^{(B) 30} for all the wildlife of the earth, for every bird of the sky, and for every creature that crawls on the earth—everything having the breath of life in it. I have given every green plant for food.”^(C) And it was so. ³¹ God saw all that He had made, and it was very good.^(D) Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.

2 So the heavens and the earth and everything in them^[b] were completed.^{(E) 2} By the seventh^[c] day God completed His work that He had done, and He rested^[d] on the seventh day from all His work that He had done.^{(F) 3} God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it He rested^(G) from His work of creation.^[e](H)

Man and Woman in the Garden

⁴ These are the records^(I) of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation at the time^[f] that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens. ⁵ No shrub of the field^(J) had yet grown on the land,^[g] 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 water would come out of the ground and water the entire surface of the land. ⁷ Then the Lord God formed the man out of the dust from the ground^(K) and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils,^(L) and the man became a living being.^(M)

⁸ The Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east,^(N) 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,^(O) as well as the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.^(P)

¹⁰ A river went^[h] out from Eden to water the garden. From there it divided and became the source of four rivers.^{[i] 11} The name of the first is Pishon, which flows through the entire land of Havilah,^[j](Q) where there is gold. ¹² Gold from that land is pure;^[k] bdellium^[l] and onyx^[m] 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 the Tigris,^(R) which runs east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.^(S)

¹⁵ The Lord God took the man and placed him in the garden of Eden to work it and watch over it. ¹⁶ And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree of the garden,^{(T) 17} but you must not eat^[n] from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”^{(U) 18} Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper as his complement.”^{(V) 19} So the Lord God formed out of the ground every wild animal and every bird of the sky, and brought each to the man to see what he would call it.^(W) And whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name. ²⁰ The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every wild animal; but for the man^[o] no helper was found as his complement. ²¹ So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to come over the man,^(X) and he slept. God took one of his ribs and closed the flesh at that place. ²² Then the Lord God made the rib He had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.^(Y)