the field had yet sprung up; for Yahweh God had not caused it
to rain on the earth. There was not a man to till the ground,
002:006 but a mist went up from the earth, and watered the whole
surface of the ground.
002:007 Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man
became a living soul.
002:008 Yahweh God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put
the man whom he had formed.
002:009 Out of the ground Yahweh God made every tree to grow that is
pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life
also in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge
of good and evil.
002:010 A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there
it was parted, and became four heads.
002:011 The name of the first is Pishon: this is the one which flows
through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
002:012 and the gold of that land is good. There is aromatic resin
and the onyx stone.
002:013 The name of the second river is Gihon: the same river that flows
through the whole land of Cush.
002:014 The name of the third river is Hiddekel: this is the one which
flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
002:015 Yahweh God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden
to dress it and to keep it.
002:016 Yahweh God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden
you may freely eat;
002:017 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall
not eat of it; for in the day that you eat of it you
will surely die."