Study Desk

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

God blessed them and said to them, "Have many children. Fill the earth and take control of it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the air. Rule over every living thing that moves on the earth."

God said, "I am giving you all the grain bearing plants and all the fruit trees. These trees make fruit with seeds in it. This grain and fruit will be your food.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and made a man. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nose, and the man became a living thing.

Then the Lord God planted a garden in the East, in a place named Eden. He put the man he made in that garden.

Then the Lord God caused all the beautiful trees that were good for food to grow in the garden. In the middle of the garden, he put the tree of life and the tree that gives knowledge about good and evil.

The Lord God put the man in the Garden of Eden to work the soil and take care of the garden.

The Lord God gave him this command: "You may eat from any tree in the garden.

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."

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.

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.

The Lord God used the rib from the man to make a woman. Then he brought the woman to the man.

The snake was the most clever of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. The snake spoke to the woman and said, "Woman, did God really tell you that you must not eat from any tree in the garden?"

But there is one tree we must not eat from. God told us, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden. You must not even touch that tree, or you will die.'"

God knows that if you eat the fruit from that tree you will learn about good and evil, and then you will be like God!"