The Story of Adam

Genesis 2:8–20 WEB

⁸The LORD God planted a garden eastward, in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. ⁹Out of the ground the LORD God made every tree to grow that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ¹⁰A river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was parted, and became the source of four rivers. ¹¹The name of the first is Pishon: it flows through the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; ¹²and the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and onyx stone are also there. ¹³The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the same river that flows through the whole land of Cush. ¹⁴The name of the third river is Hiddekel. This is the one which flows in front of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates. ¹⁵The LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate and keep it. ¹⁶The LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; ¹⁷but you shall not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.” ¹⁸The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.” ¹⁹Out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the sky, and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called every living creature became its name. ²⁰The man gave names to all livestock, and to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field; but for man there was not found a helper comparable to him.