Common English Bible

Genesis 2:6-11 Common English Bible (CEB)

6. though a stream rose from the earth and watered all of the fertile land—

7. the Lord God formed the human from the topsoil of the fertile land and blew life’s breath into his nostrils. The human came to life.

8. The Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east and put there the human he had formed.

9. In the fertile land, the Lord God grew every beautiful tree with edible fruit, and also he grew the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

10. A river flows from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divides into four headwaters.

11. The name of the first river is the Pishon. It flows around the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.