³¹ God looked at everything he had made. And he saw that everything was very good.

There was evening, and then there was morning. This was the sixth day.

The Seventh Day—Rest

2 So the earth, the sky, and everything in them were finished. ² God finished the work he was doing, so on the seventh day he rested from his work. ³ God blessed the seventh day and made it a holy day. He made it special because on that day he rested from all the work he did while creating the world.

The First Man and the Garden of Eden

⁴ This is the story about the creation of the sky and the earth. This is what happened when the Lord God made the earth and the sky. ⁵ This was before there were plants on the earth. Nothing was growing in the fields because the Lord God had not yet made it rain on the earth, and there was no one to care for the plants.

⁶ So water^[a] came up from the earth and spread over the ground. ⁷ Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and made a man.^[b] He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and the man became a living thing.

A Companion for Adam

¹⁸ Then the Lord God said, “I see that it is not good for the man to be alone. I will make the companion he needs, one just right for him.”

¹⁹ The Lord God used dust from the ground and made every animal in the fields and every bird in the air. He brought all these animals to the man, and the man gave them all a name. ²⁰ The man gave names to all the tame animals, to all the birds in the air, and to all the wild animals. He saw many animals and birds, but he could not find a companion that was right for him. ²¹ So the Lord God caused the man to sleep very deeply. While he was asleep, God took one of the ribs from the man’s body. Then he closed the man’s skin where the rib had been. ²² The Lord God used the rib from the man to make a woman. Then he brought the woman to the man. ²³ And the man said,