The Seventh Day—Rest 1So the sky, the earth, and all that filled
them were finished. 2By the seventh day God finished the work he
had been doing, so he rested from all his work. 3God blessed the
seventh day and made it a holy day, because on that day he
rested from all the work he had done in creating the world. The
First People 4This is the story of the creation of the sky and
the earth. When the Lord God first made the earth and the sky,
5there were still no plants on the earth. Nothing was growing in
the fields because the Lord God had not yet made it rain on the
land. And there was no person to care for the ground, 6but a
mist would rise up from the earth and water all the ground.
7Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and formed a man
from it. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and
the man became a living person. 8Then the Lord God planted a
garden in the east, in a place called Eden, and put the man he
had formed into it. 9The Lord God caused every beautiful tree
and every tree th