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26 Then God said: Let Us make man in Our image, after Our similitude: and they shall have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the flying creatures of the heavens, and over the beasts of the forest, and over all the earth, and over every moving creature which moveth upon the earth. 27 And God created the man after His image, after the similitude of God created He him: male and female created He them: 28 and God blessed them, and God said unto them: Be ye fruitful, and multiply ye, and replenish the earth, and subject it; and have ye dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the flying creatures of the heavens, and over every living creature that moveth upon the earth. 29 And God said: Behold, I have given unto you every herb seeding seed which is upon the surface of the whole earth; and every tree which hath in it the fruit of a tree seeding seed; unto you shall it be for food: 30 And to all the beasts of the earth, and to every fluttering creature of the heavens, and to all that moveth upon the earth which hath the breath of life within it, every green herb for food. And it was so.

31 And God looked at all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And the evening together with the morning were the sixth day.


And out of the gound JEHOVAH God

caused to grow every tree delightful to
the sight, and agreeable as food, also the

tree o life in the midst of the garde

evil
and the tree of knowledge of good and
Als a river flowed through Eden

l to water .the gardeu ; nnd fronl thence it

I was separated and became into four
eds:
country of Havilah, where there is gold

the name of the first is Pison

thesame which encompasseth the 'whole

2 and the gold of that land is good; alsa the pearl and the onyx stone are founl t And the name of the second riveris


Gihon; tlic Bame wich enconpasseth

the hole country of Cush. And the narme af the third river is Hiddekel; the

l same which floweth eastward of As
syria: and its fourth river is Enphrates.

Then JEHOVAH God brougit the | man, and settled him in the garden of Eilen, to cultivate the soil and to take


it

| 1ơ And JBNOVAH God gave command
ment unto the man, sayiug: Of cvery of
the trces ot the garden eating thou may

est eat 17 But of the tree of the kngw. ledge of good and evil thou shalt not

ent of it, for on the day thou eatest
thereof, dying thou shalt die

Also JEHovAH God aid, It is not ood that the man be alone; I will make him a help to be sa companion for him ND the heavens and the enrth witbNowJEmovAH God iadmelled out of the ground every benst of the field, and And God completed on the sixth ry flying crcature of the skies and day the work vhich He made; and Hehad brought them unto the man to sco ceased on the seventh day from all the l what he would תame them; and what soever the man proclnimed it, the livin CHAPTER I all their hosts were finished work which He had made 3 And God blessed the seventh dax, ereature; such as its name. An and sanctitied it, because ou it He ceased the ian gave names to every of the from all His work which God created cattle of the field, and to the fying ercatures of the hcavens, and to all the 4 These are the generations of the hea- bensts of the forest. But for Adam was vens and of the earth at their creation on not found a mate fitted for his com b to fushion the day JEHOVAH Uod formed the earth panion and the heavens: and every plato2 So JEHoVAH God caused a trance to the feld before it was in the eart and fall upon Adan, and he slept soundl every herb of the field before it grew. then be took away one of liis ribs and Now JEHOVAH God had not cansed it to healed up the flesh in its place:z And rain upon the earth, neither was there JEKOvAh God built up the rib which any man to cultivate the groundHe had taken out of Ada into a wo but a mist arose up out of the earth, and | man, and He conducted her unto Adam watered the '"whole face of the ground. 丨 22 Then Adam Baid : This ! this time, ts Aud JEHOVAH God modelled the bone of my bones, and Hesh of my flcsh man out of dust of the grouud, andnnto this wl I proclaim-Woman- breathed into his nostrils the breath of hecause out of man tis one was taken: life-then the man become a living soul. 24 Therefore shall a man leave-his father 8 Now JEHOVAH God planted a gardendis mother, and shall cleave to his towards the east in Eden; aud there He wife: aud they shall be btwo in one laced the ma whom He had made. Hesh I., na hefore im d See Bugaler's noto in M.Q. Bible.. oigitsedby Google