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Genesis 2:16-19 Common English Bible (CEB)

16. The Lord God commanded the human, "Eat your fill from all of the garden’s trees;

17. but don’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because on the day you eat from it, you will die!"

18. Then the Lord God said, "It’s not good that the human is alone. I will make him a helper that is perfect for him."

19. So the Lord God formed from the fertile land all the wild animals and all the birds in the sky and brought them to the human to see what he would name them. The human gave each living being its name.

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