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JANUARY 1
male and female He created them. Then God 16 And the LORD God commanded the man, say-
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blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruit- ing, “Of every tree of the garden you may
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ful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of
have dominion over the fish of the sea, over good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day
the birds of the air, and over every living thing that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
that moves on the earth.” 18 And the LORD God said, “It is not good that
29 And God said, “See, I have given you every man should be alone; I will make him a helper
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herb that yields seed which is on the face of all comparable to him.” Out of the ground the
the earth, and every tree whose fruit yields LORD God formed every beast of the field and
seed; to you it shall be for food. Also, to every every bird of the air, and brought them to
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beast of the earth, to every bird of the air, and Adam to see what he would call them. And
to everything that creeps on the earth, in whatever Adam called each living creature,
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which there is life, I have given every green that was its name. So Adam gave names to all
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herb for food”; and it was so. Then God saw cattle, to the birds of the air, and to every
everything that He had made, and indeed it beast of the field. But for Adam there was not
was very good. So the evening and the morn- found a helper comparable to him.
ing were the sixth day. 21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to
Thus the heavens and the earth, and all fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of
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the seventh day God ended His work which 22 Then the rib which the LORD God had taken
He had done, and He rested on the seventh from man He made into a woman, and He
day from all His work which He had done. brought her to the man.
3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanc- 23 And Adam said:
tified it, because in it He rested from all His “This is now bone of my bones
work which God had created and made.
4 This is the history of the heavens and the And flesh of my flesh;
earth when they were created, in the day that She shall be called Woman,
Because she was taken out of Man.”
the LORD God made the earth and the heav-
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ens, before any plant of the field was in the 24 Therefore a man shall leave his father and
earth and before any herb of the field had mother and be joined to his wife, and they
grown. For the LORD God had not caused it to shall become one flesh.
rain on the earth, and there was no man to till 25 And they were both naked, the man and
the ground; but a mist went up from the earth his wife, and were not ashamed.
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and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of Psalm 1:1–6
breath of life; and man became a living being. B lessed is the man
the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the
Who walks not in the counsel
8 The LORD God planted a garden eastward of the ungodly,
in Eden, and there He put the man whom He Nor stands in the path of sinners,
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had formed. And out of the ground the LORD Nor sits in the seat of the scornful;
God made every tree grow that is pleasant to 2 But his delight is in the law
the sight and good for food. The tree of life of the LORD,
was also in the midst of the garden, and the And in His law he meditates day
tree of the knowledge of good and evil. and night.
10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the 3 He shall be like a tree
garden, and from there it parted and became Planted by the rivers of water,
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four riverheads. The name of the first is That brings forth its fruit
Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole in its season,
land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the Whose leaf also shall not wither;
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gold of that land is good. Bdellium and the And whatever he does shall prosper.
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onyx stone are there. The name of the sec-
ond river is Gihon; it is the one which goes 4 The ungodly are not so,
around the whole land of Cush. The name of But are like the chaff which the wind
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the third river is Hiddekel; it is the one which drives away.
goes toward the east of Assyria. The fourth 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand
river is the Euphrates. in the judgment,
15 Then the LORD God took the man and put Nor sinners in the congregation
him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. of the righteous.
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