Tree Of Life Version

Genesis 2:11-22 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

11. The name of the first is Pishon, the one that winds around the whole land of the Havilah, where there is gold.

12. The gold of that land is good—bdellium and lapis lazuli stones are also there.

13. The name of the second river is Gihon—it winds around the whole land of Cush.

14. The name of the third river is Tigris—it runs east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

15. Then Adonai Elohim took the man and gave him rest in the Garden of Eden in order to cultivate and watch over it.

16. Then Adonai Elohim commanded the man saying, “From all the trees of the garden you are most welcome to eat.

17. But of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil you must not eat. For when you eat from it, you most assuredly will die!

18. Then Adonai Elohim said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. Let Me make a well-matched helper for him.”

19. Adonai Elohim had formed from the ground every animal of the field and every flying creature of the sky, so He brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called them—each living creature—that was its name.

20. So the man gave names to all of the livestock, and to the flying creatures of the sky, and to all the animals of the field; but for the man He did not find a well-matched helper for him.

21. Adonai Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall on the man and he slept; and He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place.

22. Adonai Elohim built the rib, which He had taken from the man, into a woman. Then He brought her to the man.