Genesis

1天地万物都造齐了。

2到第七日， 神造物的工已经完毕，就在第七日歇了他一切的工，安息了。

3神赐福给第七日，定为圣日；因为在这日， 神歇了他一切创造的工，就安息了。

伊甸园

4创造天地的来历，在耶和华 神造天地的日子，乃是这样，

5野地还没有草木，田间的菜蔬还没有长起来；因为耶和华 神还没有降雨在地上，也没有人耕地，

6但有雾气从地上腾，滋润遍地。

7耶和华 神用地上的尘土造人，将生气吹在他鼻孔里，他就成了有灵的活人，名叫 亚当。

8耶和华 神在东方的伊甸立了一个园子，把所造的人安置在那里。

9耶和华 神使各样的树从地里长出来，可以悦人的眼目，其上的果子好作食物。园子当中又有生命树和分别善恶的树。

10有河从伊甸流出来，滋润那园子，从那里分为四道：

11第一道名叫比逊，就是环绕哈腓拉全地的。在那里有金子，

12并且那地的金子是好的；在那里又有珍珠和红玛瑙。

13第二道河名叫基训，就是环绕古实全地的。

14第三道河名叫底格里斯，流在亚述的东边。第四道河就是幼发拉底河。

15耶和华 神将那人安置在伊甸园，使他修理，看守。

16耶和华 神吩咐他说：「园中各样树上的果子，你可以随意吃，

17只是分别善恶树上的果子，你不可吃，因为你吃的日子必定死！」

18耶和华 神说：「那人独居不好，我要为他造一个配偶帮助他。」

19耶和华 神用土所造成的野地各样走兽和空中各样飞鸟都带到那人面前，看他叫什么。那人怎样叫各样的活物，那就是它的名字。

20那人便给一切牲畜和空中飞鸟、野地走兽都起了名；只是那人没有遇见配偶帮助他。

21耶和华 神使他沉睡，他就睡了；于是取下他的一条肋骨，又把肉合起来。

22耶和华 神就用那人身上所取的肋骨造成一个女人，领她到那人跟前。

23那人说：这是我骨中的骨， 肉中的肉， 可以称她为「女人」， 因为她是从「男人」身上取出来的。

24因此，人要离开父母，与妻子连合，二人成为一体。

25当时夫妻二人赤身露体，并不羞耻。

The Seventh Day

1Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

2And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.

3Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.

Man and Woman in the Garden

4This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORDGod made them.

5Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted, for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

6But springswelled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.

7Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.

8And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, where He placed the man He had formed.

9Out of the ground the LORD God gave growth to every tree that is pleasing to the eye and good for food. And in the middle of the garden were the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

10Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:

11The name of the first river is the Pishon; it winds through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

12And the gold of that land is pure, and bdellium and onyx are found there.

13The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the whole land of Cush.

14The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.

15Then the LORD God took the man and placed him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it.

16And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,

17but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

18The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”

19And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and He brought them to the man to see what he would name each one. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name.

20The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adamno suitable helper was found.

21So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he slept, He took one of the man’s ribsand closed up the area with flesh.

22And from the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man, He made a woman and brought her to him.

23And the man said: “This is now bone of my bonesand flesh of my flesh;she shall be called ‘woman,’for out of man she was taken.”

24For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

25And the man and his wife were both naked, and they were not ashamed.