New English Translation

Genesis 2:3-8 New English Translation (NET)

3. God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.

4. This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created – when the Lord God made the earth and heavens.

5. Now no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

6. Springs would well up from the earth and water the whole surface of the ground.

7. The Lord God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

8. The Lord God planted an orchard in the east, in Eden; and there he placed the man he had formed.