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Genesis 2:4-8 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

4. That's how God created the heavens and the earth.When the Lord God made the heavens and the earth,

5. no grass or plants were growing anywhere. God had not yet sent any rain, and there was no one to work the land.

6. But streams came up from the ground and watered the earth.

7. The Lord God took a handful of soil and made a man. God breathed life into the man, and the man started breathing.

8. The Lord made a garden in a place called Eden, which was in the east, and he put the man there.

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