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And God finished on the sixth day his works which he made, and he ceased on the seventh day from all his works which he made.

And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it he ceased from all his works which God began to do.

And God formed the man of dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.

And God brought a trance upon Adam, and he slept, and he took one of his ribs, and filled up the flesh instead thereof.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

And the two were naked, both Adam and his wife, and were not ashamed.

(3:9) And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the afternoon; and both Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the Lord God in the midst of the trees of the garden.

And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed, he shall watch against thy head, and thou shalt watch against his heel.

And Adam called the name of his wife Life, because she was the mother of all living.

And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife garments of skin, and clothed them.

And God said, Behold, Adam is become as one of us, to know good and evil, and now lest at any time he stretch forth his hand, and take of the tree of life and eat, and so he shall live forever—

And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and brought forth Cain and said, I have gained a man through God.

And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

And Abel also brought of the first born of his sheep and of his fatlings, and God looked upon Abel and his gifts,

but Cain and his sacrifices he regarded not, and Cain was exceedingly sorrowful and his countenance fell.

Hast thou not sinned if thou hast brought it rightly, but not rightly divided it? be still, to thee shall be his submission, and thou shalt rule over him.

And Cain said to Abel his brother, Let us go out into the plain; and it came to pass that when they were in the plain Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

And Cain knew his wife, and having conceived she bore Enoch; and he built a city; and he named the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

And the name of his brother was Jubal; he it was who invented the psaltery and harp.

And Lamech said to his wives, Ada and Sella, Hear my voice, ye wives of Lamech, consider my words, because I have slain a man to my sorrow and a youth to my grief.