2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
2:2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing so on the seventh day he rested [Or ceased also in verse 3] from all his work.
2:3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
2:4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens
2:5 and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth [Or land also in verse 6] and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth [Or land also in verse 6] and there was no man to work the ground,
2:6 but streams [Or mist] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground
2:7 the LORD God formed the man [The Hebrew for man (adam) sounds like and may be related to the Hebrew for ground (adamah) it is also the name Adam (see Gen. 2:20).] from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man
2:8 Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden and there he put the man he had formed.
2:9 And the LORD God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
2:10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden from there it was separated into four headwaters.
2:11 The name of the first is the Pishon it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.
2:12 (The gold of that land is good aromatic resin [Or good pearls] and onyx are also there.)
2:13 The name of the second river is the Gihon it winds through the entire land of Cush. [Possibly south-east Mesopotamia]
2:14 The name of the third river is the Tigris it runs along the east side of Asshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
2:15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
2:16 And the LORD God commanded the man, You are free to eat from any tree in the garden
2:17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die.
2:18 The LORD God said, It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.
2:19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.
2:20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field. But for Adam [Or the man] no suitable helper was found.
2:21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man's ribs [Or took part of the man's side] and closed up the place with flesh.
2:22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib [Or part] he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
2:23 The man said, This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh she shall be called ‘woman', [The Hebrew for woman sounds like the Hebrew for man.] for she was taken out of man.
2:24 For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.
2:25 The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.