New English Translation

Genesis 2:11-18 New English Translation (NET)

11. The name of the first is Pishon; it runs through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

12. (The gold of that land is pure; pearls and lapis lazuli are also there).

13. The name of the second river is Gihon; it runs through the entire land of Cush.

14. The name of the third river is Tigris; it runs along the east side of Assyria. The fourth river is the Euphrates.

15. The Lord God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

16. Then the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,

17. but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will surely die.”

18. The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”