7. And Hashem Elohim formed the adam of the aphar min haadamah, and breathed into his nostrils the nishmat chayyim; and the adam became a nefesh chayyah.
8. And Hashem Elohim planted a gan (garden) eastward in Eden; and there He put the adam whom He had formed.
9. And out of the adamah made Hashem Elohim to spring up (T.N. see verse 5) kol etz (every tree) that is pleasing to the sight, and tov for food; the Etz HaChayyim (Tree of Life) also in the midst of the gan (garden), and the Etz HaDa'as Tov v'Rah (see 3:22, i.e., representing moral autonomy; contrast Exodus 9:20-21 where the Dvar Hashem is the guide of life, even for Gentiles).
10. And a nahar (river) flowed out of Eden to water the gan (garden); and from there it divided, and became four headwaters.
11. The shem of the first is Pishon; that is it which winds through the kol eretz Chavilah, where there is zahav;
12. And the zahav of that land is tov; there is [the gemstone] bedolach and the even (gemstone) hashoham [T.N.: this onyx gemstone is used in the construction of the Kohen Gadol's Bigdei HaKodesh].
13. And the shem of the second nahar is Gihon; the same is it that winds through kol eretz Cush.
14. And the shem of the third nahar is Chiddekel (Tigris [see Daniel 10:4]): that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth nahar is Euphrates.
15. And Hashem Elohim took the adam and put him in the Gan Eden la'avod (to till, to work) it and to be shomer over it.
16. And Hashem Elohim commanded the adam, saying, Of every etz of the gan thou mayest freely eat;
17. But of the Etz HaDa'as Tov v'Rah, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the yom that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.