7 And the Lord God formed man of the adust of the ground, and bbreathed into his cnostrils the breath of life; and dman became a living being.
Life in God’s Garden
8 The Lord God planted aa garden beastward in cEden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.
9 And out of the ground the Lord God made aevery tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. bThe tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and cevil.
10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads.
11 The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts athe whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12 And the gold of that land is good. aBdellium and the onyx stone are there.
13 The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush.
14 The name of the third river is aHiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of2 Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 Then the Lord God took1 the man and put him in the garden of Eden to2 tend and keep it.
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ayou shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it byou shall surely cdie.”
18 And the Lord God said, “It is not good that man should be alone; aI will make him a helper comparable to him.”
19 aOut of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and bbrought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.
New King James Version®, Copyright© 1982, Thomas Nelson. All rights reserved.
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