Genesis 2:1-9

1In that way God finished making the heavens and the earth, and everything that was in them.

2The seventh day came. Then God stopped the work that he had been doing. He had finished his work and he rested on the seventh day.

3God blessed the seventh day. He made it a special day, because he had finished making everything. He did not work on that day.

4This is what happened when God made the heavens and the earth. When the Lord God made the heavens and the earth,

5there were no plants or grasses growing on the earth. That was because the Lord God had not sent any rain on the earth. Also, there was nobody to dig the soil so that plants would grow.

6But streams of water were coming up from the earth. The water made all the top of the ground wet.

7Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and he made a man. He breathed air into the nose of the man to give him life. So the man became alive.

8The Lord God planted a garden. It was in the east, in a place called Eden. God took the man that he had made and he put him in the garden.

9The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow from the ground there. The trees were beautiful to look at. The fruit from the trees was good for people to eat. In the middle of the garden were two special trees. One was the tree that gives life. The other was the tree that gives knowledge of what is good and what is evil.