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So God made the space and separated the water. Some of the water was above it, and some of the water was below it.

Then God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered together so that the dry land will appear." And it happened.

So God made the two large lights. He made the larger light to rule during the day and the smaller light to rule during the night. He also made the stars.

So God created the large sea animals. He created all the many living things in the sea and every kind of bird that flies in the air. And God saw that this was good.

So God made every kind of animal. He made the wild animals, the tame animals, and all the small crawling things. And God saw that this was good.

So God created humans in his own image. He created them to be like himself. He created them male and female.

So the earth, the sky, and everything in them were finished.

God finished the work he was doing, so on the seventh day he rested from his work.

So water came up from the earth and spread over the ground.

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.

And the man said, "Finally! One like me, with bones from my bones and a body from my body. She was taken out of a man, so I will call her ‘woman.'"

The woman could see that the tree was beautiful and the fruit looked so good to eat. She also liked the idea that it would make her wise. So she took some of the fruit from the tree and ate it. Her husband was there with her, so she gave him some of the fruit, and he ate it.

Then it was as if their eyes opened, and they saw things differently. They saw that they were naked. So they got some fig leaves, sewed them together, and wore them for clothes.

The man said, "I heard you walking in the garden, and I was afraid. I was naked, so I hid."

The man said, "The woman you put here with me gave me fruit from that tree. So I ate it."

Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What have you done?" She said, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."

So the Lord God said to the snake, "You did this very bad thing, so bad things will happen to you. It will be worse for you than for any other animal. You must crawl on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life.

Then God said to the man, "I commanded you not to eat from that tree. But you listened to your wife and ate from it. So I will curse the ground because of you. You will have to work hard all your life for the food the ground produces.

So the Lord God forced the man out of the Garden of Eden to work the ground he was made from.

Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out to the field." So they went to the field. Then Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.