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In the day that the Yahweh God made the earth and the heavens, when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up -- for the Yahweh God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the ground; but a stream would rise from the earth, and water the whole face of the ground -- then the Yahweh God formed the earth creature from the dust of the ground, and breathed into its nostrils the breath of life; and the earth creature became a living being.
And the Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there the Yahweh God put the earth creature whom the Yahweh God had formed.
Out of the ground the Yahweh God made 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 the knowledge of good and evil.
-- Genesis 2:4-9 (NRSV)
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