5. there were no plants on the earth. Nothing was growing in the fields. The Lord God had not yet made it rain on the land. And there was no man to care for the ground.
6. But a mist often rose from the earth and watered all the ground.
7. Then the Lord God took dust from the ground and formed man from it. The Lord breathed the breath of life into the man’s nose. And the man became a living person.
8. Then the Lord God planted a garden in the East, in a place called Eden. He put the man he had formed in that garden.
9. The Lord God caused every beautiful tree and every tree that was good for food to grow out of the ground. In the middle of the garden, God put the tree that gives life. And he put there the tree that gives the knowledge of good and evil.
10. A river flowed through Eden and watered the garden. From that point the river was divided. It had four streams flowing into it.
11. The name of the first stream is Pishon. It flows around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
12. That gold is good. Bdellium and onyx are also there.
13. The name of the second river is Gihon. It flows around the whole land of Cush.
14. The name of the third river is Tigris. It flows out of Assyria toward the east. The fourth river is the Euphrates.