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4 This is the history of the heavens and the earth.  This is the story of the things that happened when God made the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 2: 4

5 This is before the plants grow on the ground.  Nothing was growing in the fields.  This was because Jehovah God had not yet sent rain and there was no one to take care of the plants.
Genesis 2: 5

6 Instead, a mist came from the earth and wet the ground.
Genesis 2: 6

7 Then the Lord God took dust from the earth and created Adam.  The Lord breathed life into Adam’s nose, and Adam became a living being.
Genesis 2: 7

8 Then the Lord God planted a garden in a place called Eden in the east.  The Lord God placed Adam in the garden he created.
Genesis 2: 8

9 The Lord God planted trees out of the ground: every beautiful tree and every tree that was good for food.  In the midst of the garden, the Lord God planted a tree of life and also a tree that taught what was good and what was bad.
Genesis 2: 9

10 There was a river in Eden that watered the garden.  The river then split into four branches.
Genesis 2:10

11 The first river was called Pishon.  This river flowed around the whole country of Havilah, where there is gold.
Genesis 2:11

12 (The gold in Havilah is good. There are also pearls and onyx in that land.
Genesis 2:12

13 The second river was called Gihon.  This river flowed all over the land of Ethiopia.
Genesis 2:13

14 The name of the third river was Hidkhal.  This river flowed east of Assyria.  The fourth river was the Euphrates.
Genesis 2:14

15 Jehovah God placed Adam in the garden of Eden to work on the land and to look after the garden.
Genesis 2:15

16 The Lord God gave this command to Adam.  The Lord God said, “You can eat the fruit of every tree in the garden.
Genesis 2:16

17 But thou shalt not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.  If you eat the fruit of that tree, you will die. ”
Genesis 2:17

18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for Adam to be alone.  I will make a helper for him who will be like him. ”
Genesis 2:18

19 The Lord God took the dust of the earth and made every animal in the field and every bird in the sky.  The Lord God brought all these animals to man to see what he would call them.  The man named each animal.
Genesis 2:19

20 And he called the names of the beasts of the field, and of the birds of the air, and of all the beasts of the field.  He saw many animals and birds, but he could not find anyone to help him.
Genesis 2:20

21 So the Lord God put the man to sleep.  While the man was asleep, the Lord God took a rib from the man’s body.  Then the Lord God closed the part of the man’s skin from where he had taken the rib.
Genesis 2:21

22 The Lord God made a woman out of the rib he took from the man.  Then the Lord God brought the woman to Adam.
Genesis 2:22

23 The man said, “Finally!  A man like me, his bones are from my bones. His body is from my body. He was taken from a man, so that woman will go forever. ”
Genesis 2:23

24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and marries his wife.  In this way, the two become one.
Genesis 2:24