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The Lord God took some soil from the ground and made a man. God breathed life into the man, and the man started breathing.
The Lord made a garden in a place called Eden, which was in the east, and he put the man there.
The Lord God put the man in the Garden of Eden to take care of it and to look after it.
The Lord God said, “It isn't good for the man to live alone. I will make a suitable partner for him.”
So the Lord took some soil and made animals and birds. He brought them to the man to see what names he would give each of them. Then the man named the tame animals and the birds and the wild animals. That's how they got their names. None of these was the right kind of partner for the man.
the Lord made a woman out of the rib. The Lord God brought her to the man,
and the man exclaimed, “Here is someone like me! She is part of my body, my own flesh and bones. She came from me, a man. So I will name her Woman!”
That's why a man will leave his own father and mother. He marries a woman, and the two of them become like one person.
Although the man and his wife were both naked, they were not ashamed.
Late in the afternoon, when the breeze began to blow, the man and woman heard the Lord God walking in the garden. So they hid behind some trees.
The Lord God called out to the man and asked, “Where are you?”
The man answered, “I was naked, and when I heard you walking through the garden, I was frightened and hid!”
“It was the woman you put here with me,” the man said. “She gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it.”
The Lord said to the man, “You listened to your wife and ate the fruit I told you not to eat. And so, the ground will be under a curse because of what you did. As long as you live, you will have to struggle to grow enough food.
The man Adam named his wife Eve because she would become the mother of all who live.
Then the Lord God made clothes out of animal skins for the man and his wife.
So the Lord God sent them out of the Garden of Eden, where they would have to work the ground from which the man had been made.
One day, Lamech said to his two wives, “A young man wounded me, and I killed him.
God created men and women to be like himself. He gave them his blessing and called them human beings. The following is a list of the descendants of Adam, the first man:
From now on, your family must circumcise every baby boy when he is eight days old. You must even circumcise any man or boy you have as a slave, both those born in your homes and those you buy from foreigners. This will be a sign that my promise to you will last forever.
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