1. So the heavens and the earth and everything else were created.
2. By the seventh day God had finished his work, and so he rested.
3. God blessed the seventh day and made it special because on that day he rested from his work.
4. That's how God created the heavens and the earth.When the Lord God made the heavens and the earth,
5. no grass or plants were growing anywhere. God had not yet sent any rain, and there was no one to work the land.
6. But streams came up from the ground and watered the earth.
7. The Lord God took a handful of soil and made a man. God breathed life into the man, and the man started breathing.
8. The Lord made a garden in a place called Eden, which was in the east, and he put the man there.
9. The Lord God placed all kinds of beautiful trees and fruit trees in the garden. Two other trees were in the middle of the garden. One of the trees gave life—the other gave the power to know the difference between right and wrong.
19-20. So the Lord took some soil and made animals and birds. He brought them to the man to see what names he would give each of them. Then the man named the tame animals and the birds and the wild animals. That's how they got their names.None of these was the right kind of partner for the man.