1. So the earth, the sky, and everything in them were finished.
2. God finished the work he was doing, so on the seventh day he rested from his work.
3. God blessed the seventh day and made it a holy day. He made it special because on that day he rested from all the work he did while creating the world.
4. This is the story about the creation of the sky and the earth. This is what happened when the Lord God made the earth and the sky.
5. This was before there were plants on the earth. Nothing was growing in the fields because the Lord God had not yet made it rain on the earth, and there was no one to care for the plants.
6. So water came up from the earth and spread over the ground.
7. Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and made a man. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose, and the man became a living thing.
8. Then the Lord God planted a garden in the East, in a place named Eden. He put the man he made in that garden.