NIV 2011
The Creation of Man and Woman
2 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
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.
5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground. 7 Then the Lord God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed. 9 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.
10 A river watering the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four headwaters. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 (The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.) 13 The name of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of Cush. 14 The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man, “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die.”
18 The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky. 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. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals.
But for Adam no suitable helper was found. 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 and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.
23 The man said,
“This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman,’
for she was taken out of man.”
24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh.
25 Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
WYC 1382
The Creation of Man and Woman
2 Therefore heavens and earth be made perfect, and all the ornament of those.
2 And God [ful]filled in the seventh day his work which he made; and he rested in the seventh day from all his work which he had made; 3 and he blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; for in that day God ceased of all his work which he made of nought, that he should make.
4 These be the generations of heaven and of earth, in the day wherein the Lord God made heaven and earth,
5 and each little tree of [the] earth before that it sprang out in [the] earth; and he made each herb of the field before that it burgeoned. For the Lord God had not (yet) rained on the earth, and no man there was that wrought the earth; 6 but a well went out of [the] earth, and moisted all the higher part of the earth. 7 Therefore the Lord God formed man of the slime of [the] earth, and breathed into his face the breathing of life; and man was made into a living soul.
8 Forsooth the Lord God planted at the beginning (the) paradise of liking, wherein he set man whom he had formed. 9 And the Lord God brought forth (out) of the earth each tree fair in sight, and sweet to eat; also he brought forth the tree of life in the midst of paradise, and the tree of knowing of good and of evil.
10 And a river went out from the place of liking to moist paradise, which river is parted from thence into four heads. 11 The name of the one river is Pishon, that it is that compasseth all the land of Havilah, where gold cometh forth,
12 and the gold of that land is the best, and there is found bdellium, that is, a tree of spicery, and the stone onyx; 13 and the name of the second river is Gihon, that it is that compasseth all the land of Ethiopia 14 forsooth the name of the third river is Tigris, that goeth against Assyrians; soothly the fourth river is that Euphrates.
15 Therefore the Lord God took man, and set him in (the) paradise of liking, that he should work and keep it. 16 And God commanded to him and said, Eat thou of each tree of paradise; 17 forsooth eat thou not of the tree of knowing of good and of evil; for in whatever day thou shalt eat thereof, thou shalt die by death.
18 And the Lord God said, It is not good that a man be alone; make we to him an helper like to himself.
19 And therefore when all living beasts of [the] earth, and all the volatiles of (the) heaven(s,) were formed of [the] earth, the Lord God brought those to Adam, that he should see what he should call those; for all thing that Adam called of living soul, that is the name thereof. 20 And Adam called by their names all living things, and all volatiles [of (the) heaven(s)], and all unreasonable beasts of [the] earth.
Forsooth to Adam was not found an helper like him. 21 Therefore the Lord God sent sleep into Adam, and when he slept, God took one of his ribs, and filled flesh for it. 22 And the Lord God builded the rib which he had taken from Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam.
23 And Adam said,
This is now a bone of my bones,
and flesh of my flesh; t
his shall be called virago,
for she is taken (out) of man.
24 Wherefore a man shall forsake [his] father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they shall be twain in one flesh.
25 Forsooth ever either was naked, that is, Adam and his wife, and they were not ashamed.
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