Genesis 2:11-25 ▼

11 The name of the one is Pishon; it is the one winding through the whole land of the Havilah, where there is the gold.

12 And the gold of that land is good, and the bdellium and the onyx stone are there.

13 And the name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one winding through the whole land of Cush.

14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one going along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river, it is the Euphrates.

15 And YHWH God took the man and He caused him to rest in the garden of Eden, to work it and to keep it.

16 And YHWH God placed a command upon the man, saying, “From every tree of the garden you may surely eat.

17 And from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, from it you shall not eat. For in the day of your eating from it, you shall surely die!”

18 And YHWH God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make for him a helper as his counterpart.”

19 And YHWH God formed from the ground every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens, and He brought them to the man to see what he would call it. And whatever the man called it—each living soul—that was its name.

20 And the man called names to all the livestock, and to the bird of the heavens, and to every beast of the field. And for the man there was not found a helper as his counterpart.

21 And YHWH God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept, and He took one from his sides, and He closed up the flesh in its place.

22 And YHWH God built the side—which He had taken from the man—into a woman, and He brought her to the man.

23 And the man said, “This at last is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh; for this shall be called ‘Woman,’ because out of Man this was taken.”

24 Upon thus a man shall leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

25 And the two of them were naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.