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The firt abbath.

every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

And God bleed them, and God aid unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenih the earth, and ubdue it: and have dominion over the fih of the ea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that † moveth upon the earth.

¶ And God aid, Behold, I have given you every herb † bearing eed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding eed; to you it hall be for meat.

And to every beat of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is † life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was o.

And God aw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the ixth day.

1 The firt abbath. 4 The manner of the creation. 8 The planting of the garden of Eden. 10 The river, and its four heads. 15 Man is placed in Eden, and the tree of knowledge only forbidden. 18 The naming of the creatures. 21 The making of woman, and intitution of marriage.

the heavens and the earth were finihed, and all the hot of them.

And on the eventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he reted on the eventh day from all his work which he had made.

And God bleed the eventh day, and anctified it: becaue that in it he had reted from all his work which God † created and made.

¶ Thee are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the God made the earth and the heavens,

And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the God had not caued it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

But ‖ there went up a mit from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.

And the God formed man † of the dut of the ground, and breathed into his notrils the breath of life; and man became a living oul.

¶ And the God planted a garden eatward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

And out of the ground made the God to grow every tree that is pleaant to the ight and good for food; the tree of life alo in the midt of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

¶ And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

The name of the firt is Pion: that is it which compaeth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;

And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx tone.

And the name of the econd river is Gihon: the ame is it that compaeth the whole land of † Ethiopia.

And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth ‖ toward the eat of Ayria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

¶ And the God took ‖ the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dres it and to keep it.

And the God commanded the man, aying, Of every tree of the garden † thou mayet freely eat:

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou halt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatet thereof † thou halt urely die.

¶ And the God aid, It is not good that the man hould be alone; I will make him an help † meet for him.

And out of the ground the God formed every beat of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto ‖ Adam to ee what he would call them: and whatoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.

And Adam † gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beat of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.

¶ And the God caused a deep leep to fall upon Adam, and he lept: and he took one of his ribs, and cloed up the flesh intead thereof;

And the rib, which the God had taken from man, † made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.

And Adam aid, This is now bone of my bones, and fleh of my fleh: he hall be called † Woman, becaue he was taken out of † Man.

Therefore hall a man leave his father and his mother, and hall cleave unto his wife: and they hall be one fleh.