The Holy Ivri Heritage Bible

1Thus the Shamayim [Heavens] and the Aretz [Earth] were finished, and all their host. 2On the Yom HaShishi [Sixth Day], Elohim completed His work which He had made; and on the Yom HaShevi’i [Seventh Day] He ceased from all His work. 3Elohim blessed the Yom HaShevi’i and set it apart as Kadosh [holy], because on it He ceased from all His work which Elohim had created and made. 4These are the toledot [generations] of the Shamayim and the Aretz when they were created, in the day that YHWH (YAHUAH) Elohim made the Shamayim and the Aretz. 5No shrub of the field had yet appeared, and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for Yahuah Elohim had not sent rain upon the Aretz, and there was no Adam to till the ground. 6But a mist rose from the Aretz and watered the whole face of the ground. 7Yahuah Elohim formed Adam [Man] from the dust of the Aretz, and breathed into his nostrils the neshamah chayim [breath of life]; and Adam became a nefesh chayah [living soul]. 8Yahuah Elohim planted a gan [garden] eastward in Eden, and there He placed Adam whom He had formed. 9Out of the ground Yahuah Elohim made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food; the Etz Chayim [Tree of Life] was in the midst of the garden, and the Etz HaDa’at Tov v’Ra [Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil]. 10A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided into four heads. 11The name of the first is Pishon, which encircles the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12The gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there. 13The name of the second river is Gihon, which encircles the whole land of Cush. 14The third river is Hiddekel [Tigris], which flows east of Assyria. The fourth river is Perat [Euphrates]. 15Yahuah Elohim took Adam and placed him in the Gan Eden l'avad [to work/serve it] and l'shamar [to guard/protect it]. 16Yahuah Elohim commanded Adam, saying: “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat, 17But of the Etz HaDa’at Tov v’Ra you shall not eat, for in the day you eat of it you shall surely die.” 18Yahuah Elohim said: “It is not good for Adam to be alone; I will make for him an ezer kenegdo [an ally / counterpart opposite him].” 19Yahuah Elohim formed out of the ground every beast of the field and every bird of the Shamayim, and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them. Whatever Adam called each living creature, that was its name. 20Adam gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the Shamayim, and every beast of the field. But for Adam no ezer kenegdo [an ally / counterpart opposite him] was found. 21Yahuah Elohim caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept. He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh in its place. 22Yahuah Elohim built the rib He had taken from Adam into a ishah [woman], and brought her to Adam. 23Adam said: “This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ishah [woman], because she was taken out of ish [man].” 24Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother, and dabaq [cleave/bond] to his wife, and they shall become basar echad [one flesh].