KJ3 Literal Translation
Genesis 2
1 The first Sabbath, 4 manner of the creation, 8 planting of the Garden of Eden, 10 river out of Eden, 17 tree of knowledge forbidden, 19 naming of the creatures, 21 making of woman and marriage.
1And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all their host.
2And on the seventh day God completed His work that He had made. And He ceased on the seventh day from all His work that He had made.
3And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, for He ceased from all His work on it, which God had created to bring forth.
4These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created in the day that Jehovah God was making earth and heavens.
5And every shrub of the field was not yet on the earth, and every green plant of the field had not yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not sent rain on the earth, and there was no man to till the ground.
6And mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.
7And Jehovah God formed the man out of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
8And Jehovah God planted a garden in Eden to the east; and He put the man whom He had formed there.
9And out of the ground Jehovah God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food. And the Tree of Life was also in the middle of the garden, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
10And a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it was divided and became four heads.
11The name of the first was Pishon; it is the one surrounding all the land of Havilah where gold is;
12the gold of that land is good; there is bdellium gum resin, and the onyx stone.
13And the name of the second river is Gihon. It is the one surrounding all the land of Cush.
14And the name of the third river is Tigris; it is the one going east of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15And Jehovah God took the man and put him into the Garden of Eden, to work it and to keep it.
16And Jehovah God commanded the man, saying, Eating you may eat of every tree in the garden;
17but of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil you may not eat, for in the day of the eating of it, dying you shall die.
18And Jehovah God said, It is not good, the man being alone. I will make a helper corresponding to him.
19And Jehovah God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the heavens out of the ground. And He brought each one to the man, to see what he would call it. And all that the man might call it, each living soul, that was its name.
20And the man called names to all the cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every animal of the field. But no helper corresponding to him was found for a man.
21And Jehovah 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 instead of it.
22And Jehovah God formed the rib which He had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man.
23And the man said, This now, at last, is bone from my bones, and flesh from my flesh. For she shall be called Woman, because this has been taken out of man.
24Therefore, a man shall leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave to his wife and they shall become one flesh.
25And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and they were not ashamed.
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