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These are the generations of heaven and earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh God made earth and heaven—

before any plant of the field was on earth, and before any plant of the field had sprung up, because Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no human being to cultivate the ground,

when Yahweh God formed the man of dust from the ground, and he blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

And Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

And Yahweh God caused to grow every tree that was pleasing to the sight and good for food. And the tree of life was in the midst of the garden, along with the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

And Yahweh God took the man and set him in the garden of Eden to cultivate it and to keep it.

And Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "From every tree of the garden you may freely eat,

Then Yahweh God said, "it is not good that the man is alone. I will make for him a helper as his counterpart."

And out of the ground Yahweh God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the sky, and he brought each to the man to see what he would call it. And whatever the man called that living creature was its name.

And Yahweh God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man. While he slept, he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh where it had been.

And Yahweh God fashioned the rib which he had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.

Now the serpent was more crafty than any other wild animal which Yahweh God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God indeed say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree in the garden'?"

Then they heard the sound of Yahweh God walking in the garden at the windy time of day. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Yahweh God among the trees of the garden.

And Yahweh God called to the man and said to him, "Where are you?"

Then Yahweh God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."

Then Yahweh God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, you will be cursed more than any domesticated animal and more than any wild animal. On your belly you shall go and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

And Yahweh God made for Adam and for his wife garments of skin, and he clothed them.

And Yahweh God said, "Look—the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil. What if he stretches out his hand and takes also from the tree of life and eats, and lives forever?"

And Yahweh God sent him out from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from which he was taken.

Now Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bore Cain. And she said, "I have given birth to a man with the help of Yahweh."