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And the gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the onyx stone are there.
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The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush.
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The name of the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one which goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
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Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it.
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And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
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but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
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And the Lord God said, "It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a helper comparable to him."
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Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. And whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name.
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So Adam gave names to all cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to him.
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And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place.
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Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.