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6 These are the generations of heaven and earth, when they were created in the day, when our Lord God made the heaven, and the earth, and every plant of the field, before it shot up in the earth, and everie hearb of the ground before it sprang. For our Lord God had not rayned upon the earth; and man was not to til the earth. But a spring rose out of the earth, watering al the overmost part of the earth. Our Lord God therfore formed man of the slyme of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soule.

And our Lord God had planted a Paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherin he placed man whom he had formed. And our Lord God brought forth of the ground al manners of trees, faire to behold, and pleasant to eate of: the tree of life also in the middle of Paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And a river issued out of the place of pleasure to water Paradise, which from thence is divided into foure heades. The name of one is Phison: that is it which compasseth al the land of Hevilath, where gold groweth. And the gold of that land is very good: there is found bdelium, and the stone onyx. And the name of the second river is Gehon: that is it which compasseth al the land of Ethiopia. And the name of the third river is Tygris; that same passeth along by the Assirians. And the fourth river, the same is Euphrates.

Our Lord God therfore tooke man, and put him in the Paradise of pleasure, to worke, and keepe it. And he commanded him saying: Of everie tree of Paradise eate thou: But ″ of the tree of knowledge of good and evil eate thou not. For in what day soever thou shalt eate of it, ″ thou shalt dye the death. Our Lord God also said: It is not good for man to be alone: let us make him a help like unto himselfe. Our Lord God therfore having formed of clay al beasts of the earth, and foules of the ayre; brought them to Adam, that he might see what to cal them: for al that Adam called any living creature, the same is his name.

And Adam called al beasts by their names, and al foules of the ayre, and al cattel of the field: but unto Adam there was not found an helper like himselfe. Our Lord God therfore cast a dead sleep upon Adam: and when he was fast asleep, he tooke one of his ribbes, and filled up flesh for it. And our Lord God built the ribbe which he tooke of Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam. And Adam said: This now is bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shal be called woman, because she was taken out of man. Wherfore man shal leave his father and mother, and shal cleave to his wife, and they shal be two in one flesh. And they were both naked, to wit Adam and his wife; and were not ashamed. Rh