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Genesis 2:1-12 Young's Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible (YLT98)

1. And the heavens and the earth are completed, and all their host;

2. and God completeth by the seventh day His work which He hath made, and ceaseth by the seventh day from all His work which He hath made.

3. And God blesseth the seventh day, and sanctifieth it, for in it He hath ceased from all His work which God had prepared for making.

4. These [are] births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;

5. and no shrub of the field is yet in the earth, and no herb of the field yet sprouteth, for Jehovah God hath not rained upon the earth, and a man there is not to serve the ground,

6. and a mist goeth up from the earth, and hath watered the whole face of the ground.

7. And Jehovah God formeth the man--dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

8. And Jehovah God planteth a garden in Eden, at the east, and He setteth there the man whom He hath formed;

9. and Jehovah God causeth to sprout from the ground every tree desirable for appearance, and good for food, and the tree of life in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

10. And a river is going out from Eden to water the garden, and from thence it is parted, and hath become four chief [rivers];

11. the name of the one [is] Pison, it [is] that which is surrounding the whole land of the Havilah where the gold [is],

12. and the gold of that land [is] good, there [is] the bdolach and the shoham stone;

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