BERESHITH (GENESIS) 2

Gen 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their array.
Gen 2:2 And on the seventh day Elohim completed His work which He had
done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had
made.
Gen 2:3 And Elohim blessed the seventh day and set it apart, because on it
He rested from all His work which Elohim in creating had made.
Gen 2:4 These are the births of the heavens and the earth when they were
created, in the day that יהוה Elohim made earth and heavens.
Gen 2:5 Now no shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the
field had yet sprung up, for יהוה Elohim had not sent rain on the earth, and
there was no man to till the ground,
Gen 2:6 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the entire surface of
the ground.
Gen 2:7 And יהוה Elohim formed the man out of dust from the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils breath of life. And the man became a living being.
Gen 2:8 And יהוה Elohim planted a garden in Ĕḏen, to the east, and there He
put the man whom He had formed.
Gen 2:9 And out of the ground יהוה Elohim made every tree grow that is
pleasant to the sight and good for food, with the tree of life in the midst of the
garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
Gen 2:10 And a river went out of Ĕḏen to water the garden, and from there it
divided and became four riverheads.
Gen 2:11 The name of the first is Pishon, it is the one surrounding the entire
land of Ḥawilah, where there is gold.
Gen 2:12 And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium is there, and the
shoham stone.
Gen 2:13 And the name of the second river is Giḥon, it is the one
surrounding the entire land of Kush.
Gen 2:14 And the name of the third river is Ḥiddeqel, it is the one which
goes toward the east of Ashshur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
Gen 2:15 And יהוה Elohim took the man and put him in the garden of Ĕḏen to
work it and to guard it.
Gen 2:16 And יהוה Elohim commanded the man, saying, “Eat of every tree of
the garden,
Gen 2:17 but do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in
the day that you eat of it you shall certainly die.”
Gen 2:18 And יהוה Elohim said, “It is not good for the man to be alone, I am
going to make a helper for him, as his counterpart.”
Gen 2:19 And from the ground יהוה Elohim formed every beast of the field
and every bird of the heavens, and brought them to the man to see what he
would call them. And whatever the man called each living creature, that was
its name.
Gen 2:20 So the man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the
heavens, and to every beast of the field. But for the man there was not found a
helper for him, as his counterpart.
Gen 2:21 So יהוה Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall on the man, and he
slept. And He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
Gen 2:22 And the rib which יהוה Elohim had taken from the man He made
into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
Gen 2:23 And the man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my
flesh. This one is called ‘woman,’ because she was taken out of man.”
Gen 2:24 For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and cleave
to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Gen 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, yet they were not
ashamed.