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The Beginning
(continued)
1 Thus the heavens and the earth
were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had
made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work
which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it:
because that in it he had rested from all his work which God
created and made.
Adam and Eve
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of
the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD
God made the earth and the heavens,
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the
earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the
LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there
was not a man to till the ground.
6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered
the whole face of the ground.
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man
became a living soul.
8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and
there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every
tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the
tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree
of knowledge of good and evil.
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and
from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which
compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium
and the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is
it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is
it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth
river is Euphrates.
15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the
garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every
tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil,
thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest
thereof thou shalt surely die.
18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man
should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast
of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them
unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever
Adam called every living creature, that was the name
thereof.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of
the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there
was not found an help meet for him.
21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon
Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed
up the flesh instead thereof;
22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man,
made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh
of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was
taken out of Man.
24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother,
and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and
were not ashamed.
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Cults 
Why Did God Permit Sin?
