The Lord God took the man and placed him in the orchard in Eden to care for it and to maintain it.

Then the Lord God commanded the man, “You may freely eat fruit from every tree of the orchard,

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a companion for him who corresponds to him.”

The man said, “The woman whom you gave me, she gave me some fruit from the tree and I ate it.”

The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

This is the record of the family line of Adam. When God created humankind, he made them in the likeness of God.

He created them male and female; when they were created, he blessed them and named them “humankind.”

When humankind began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born to them,

The Lord regretted that he had made humankind on the earth, and he was highly offended.

But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the people had started building.

But he added, “You cannot see my face, for no one can see me and live.”

Any human being who is permanently dedicated must not be ransomed; such a person must be put to death.

(Now the man Moses was very humble, more so than any man on the face of the earth.)

They took all the plunder and all the spoils, both people and animals.

The people were 16,000, of which the Lord’s tribute was 32 people.

When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when he divided up humankind, he set the boundaries of the peoples, according to the number of the heavenly assembly.

The Preeminent One of Israel does not go back on his word or change his mind, for he is not a human being who changes his mind.”

He smashed the sacred pillars to bits, cut down the Asherah pole, and filled those shrines with human bones.

They talked about the God of Jerusalem as if he were one of the man-made gods of the nations of the earth.

“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,