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God said, "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the cattle, and over all the eretz, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the eretz."

God created man in his own image. In God's image he created him; male and female he created them.

God blessed them. God said to them, "Be fruitful, multiply, fill the eretz, and subdue it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the eretz."

God said, "Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is on the surface of all the eretz, and every tree, which bears fruit yielding seed. It will be your food.

God saw everything that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. There was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the eretz when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made eretz and the heavens.

No plant of the field was yet in the eretz, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the eretz. There was not a man to till the ground,

The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

The LORD God planted a garden eastward, in `Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Out of the ground the LORD God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

The LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of `Eden to dress it and to keep it.

The LORD God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:

The LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him."

Out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.

The LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he slept; and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.

He made the rib, which the LORD God had taken from the man, into a woman, and brought her to the man.

Now the serpent was more subtle than any animal of the field which the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Yes, has God said, 'You shall not eat of any tree of the garden?'"

but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"