IN the Hebrew Mystery Teachings...

Simple the innocent conceptual feel of worth within the ease of Kalisy touching the guardian within a real man. It is a flow easily received if held honestly within the poetry of soul. How a finger touches fragrance tells a woman about a man. How she touches him in reciprocation whispers into the essential purpose of man with woman. Eve fed Adam a forbidden fruit. Fully aware of what the loss to his world would feel like he broke the law he knew, and ate of the forbidden fruit. Loss of a woman is worth the risk to her man's soul is the testimony of this Hebrew story. He had reacted badly to his first wife's spirit, and to lose another was unbearable. Unbearable was the punishment he and Eve suffered banished from the Garden of Eden.

Only in the Book of Adam and Eve is the texture of loss told, and felt by anyone not there to experience their ordeal in the aftermath of their disobedience... - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 12/06/18

Alishaaa Mae flashes a glint of the spectacular with the most humble of gestures. "It is astounding the movement of strength in vulnerability!" 

Alishaaa Mae gentle of spirit is easily on a list of wants. What she needs is in her eyes. Within her voice is her heart and at the core the substance of things looked for as quality she can develop... - Dawn Wolf, Keeper of Stories 

ADAM'S EVE and MARILYN MONROE

Marilyn Monroe in Laurel Canyon in 1953. Photo by Milton Green.

Marilyn Monroe as many already know holds my admiration and my fascination with how and possibly why she was so compelling a beauty. Could it be a combination of pathos, and delicate humor that played against the racial hatred of the time she was alive that crossed over the racial divide held fast by terror of the repercussions of crossing over to talk to, at the least, and at the most to seek a permanent relationship with this white woman, with such a one that grips my senses?

Too many words. She was fine, playful and was the sexual being she could not hide from. Her influence plays its part every year since she died of whatever took her life. Was it too much attention, sadness, lack of what she needed, or the abuse of being Marilyn Monroe or being the wife of white men, and idolized by men, period?

In the 1950's when Marilyn Monroe was alive the Iron Curtain held West Germans prisoner as well as East Germans hostage to an ideology not fit for a good life. The wall Trump wants to put up entombs white Americans in their paranoia, and their deep fears they vehemently deny exist in their thinking and decision making. Marilyn Monroe, like countless white women of her time, before her time, and long after are bound by the social mores their white men insist upon them to stay on this side of their opinion of people, and stand in this, and behave thus because you are better than them!

"Look at Eve!" they shout at their rebelling wives. But what they cannot conceive is Eve was awake before Adam and had a grasp on everything he missed in his prior romps around the garden of Eden.

Let's move out of the volatile subject of race because white men largely incapable of seeing outside that realm have already blanked out. If we do that they get tricked into thinking we are getting down to business now, and they don't have to multi-task and think about historical stuff, ramifications of actions, karma, or weigh their souls against the dynamic they created. That being said do men need to move out of the way? Do we? Are we in the way of what we see, out of touch with what we should know and unaware of what women know and understand about what is around us, and within them?

Adam basically cut himself off from a set of truths he needed to be the man for Eve's well being. Well, maybe that wasn't fair. God created Adam. He was alone in the garden. He had access to everything he needed except knowledge outside of an immediate state. He knew enough to name animals. That meant he was in touch intuitively, but that wasn't enough as Eve's presence showed him. The story goes that God felt Adam's loneliness. Adam probably was watching animals couple and copulate. He could not have known what they were doing, but his instinctual knowledge triggered a response within that felt indescribable. Its presence was pressure and to releave that pressure Adam could not articulate so, mercifully God put him to sleep and out of his body to remove a rib and created Eve.

Now, old Hebrew stories speak of Adam's first wife, Lilith. In hush tones of voice throughout the ages her name was whispered. Intuitive souls, like mine, felt something forbidding about Lilith and sequestered her somewhere in the shadows of a forbidden forest, or a dark cold cave beneath the earth before we discovered the Earth is our Mother! She wasn't compliant. She was strong and opinionated. She must have been. That was the tone of voice used by the few who talked about her legacy. What condemned her was her fierceness, lack of fear and a deep power to prevail against elements Adam was intellectually incapable of hearing, and understanding because he was undeveloped in ways only a woman's touch, a woman's powers from her womb could stimulate into action, and powers to develop him into the fullness of man!

What Adam did not have was creative energies in his employ. Esteem he had. Knowing? Well, let me stop myself there. Life was not his ally. In this era of spiritual development the Hebrew people had not themselves evolved beyond this level of consciousness, if the Hebrew story is indicative of a time in their evolutionary history. Accepting that let's say Adam was simple as a man in the embryonic stage of growth between formlessness and form somewhere and not criticize him but try and understand our individual level of consciousness. After all, if this creation story is yours by adoption then we are joining ourselves in a growth process parallel with Adam, if we are men.

Now, Eve as the second wife had judgment coming towards her because she did not conform to the order of Hebrew man's estimation of women's place. It seems this way in retrospect, but inside of their present she was in order. When she was created Adam was asleep. He had never had the weight of responsibility, nor the release after sex so we cannot say how long he slept, but from a sacred woman's point of view did he give her the time she needed to explore the garden in depth with attention to details he did not consider and discover the layers concealed from Adam's perception, but open to her in the life of the garden? If so, then here is where the story becomes mean because when he awoke she was his surprise and he was baffled with no idea of what to do, or say or how to compose himself and he could not go into an arena within himself to pull up inner strength because life for him did not require it.

It gets mean because this is where men have taken it upon themselves to judge Eve condemning her for the curse of work, toil, hard work without end because she gave the fruit to Adam to eat and become like gods! The truth is the story from her perspective. When Adam woke up she saw his erection and sat on it. This awakened and woke Adam up: the strongest creative energy on the planet!

The first awakening of Adam was when God created him. The second awakening was when Eve had him enter her body! His exploration of Eve was the most powerful testament of Life. The whole of Creation was stirred within him and Eve was able to unveil many things previously held away from Adam because he was both unprepared and not initiated from within for the deeper mysteries of Creation within the body of, the punany of Eve. Adam learned before and during his orgasms birth comes through the womb at every level of Creation. The female copulation with the male within the Creator is best told as a child's story using math.

The Creatress is Mother. She has the womb that births all of existence. Within her instantaneous being was born as The Creator who is Father. He is the dividing of the Zero. From this copulation come all numbers with their meanings and significant powers to create. This she bore into Adam's being. From him came no resistance. How could he? What man can resist in this embrace giving his virginity to the right woman? All Adam could do was submit and awaken to receive in the giving up of his seed.

Now, in your critical mind you want to get analytical and say this mathematical equation is not of the Hebrew mystery teachings. It isn't but it is because these things are universal within all Life, therefore the strict boundaries of law in religion flounder about in this instance because they stump and stop growth, which is the lesson of all I have shared, and speculated about. Adam lived before religion and church and synagogue. His advantage was that and the fact that the sacredness churches pretend to have lives in each fold and flower and tingling sensation within Creation! So, his sexual experiences penetrated him into and with the deep mysteries of the garden, hence all of the universe.

The Bible says Jesus was the second Adam. Leaving that alone I will only say that the woman who penetrated Jesus opened up the same and different things within him. His wife, as required by Rabbinical law, equaled the status of Eve's capacity to penetrate her man with the energies of Creation awakening from slumber that which was mighty and slept within him! By this stage of human history the adherents to the release of Adam's seed within Eve have slept with the idea that holy men do not and are better off without women in their beds as help mates and co-creators in the energy work their missions in life are. The way this leads back to Marilyn Monroe is obvious and easy to connect to these stories.

For the 20th century, Marilyn Monroe is the vision, the exquisite, the ideal preference of what is envisioned to be the social persuasion of a people who need to believe that history should be written with them as the progenitors of humanity when they are not, not with their recessive genes. Pliant, easy on the weakest sense of manhood the image of Marilyn Monroe was left, by appearance, for all men to have access to, but all men weren't to afford her, or capable to gently attend to her secret tears. She was sexually available because she appeared naïve and complaint because she could be put in her place by force of words, or anger as her husbands so easily did with cruelty. This has been a socially accepted practice by many cultures and she submitted to it with regret in silence. In a nut shell this is how Eve is presented to us in Sunday school, and enforced daily by numerous means and examples.

This is why Lilith was not able to be Adam's wife. She couldn't put up with it. So, a question comes up asking if the standard understanding of Eve is accepted and is opposed to strength and spiritual powers women are imbued with from the Most High what value do women have? Perhaps the answer is in the dismissive theology of Eve being the weaker vessel made weak by not telling the creation story from her perspective. Is this a good place to stop? No. This is a good place to begin to reexamine the value of what we believe and reexamine the structures we live by as men and as women, of marriage and the social construct of race white people have created to raise themselves above morality as they took apart the African spirituality they interpreted as a means of acquisition of power and resources from the Earth they cannot see as Mother.


Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories
Jan. 8, 2017

Maat Petrova in paradise. (2014)

Maat Petrova's mystical self.

the Mystery has no Clothes on!

naked Black woman arching her back 

The naked body is a story. It is a mysterious form of a creature one significant creation story condemned. That condemnation changed the perception of Nature, altered the view and power of a woman's body and her relationship to nakedness changed the birth process for millions upon millions of people living upon the face of the Earth, our Mother! That is a powerful story about Eve and her husband Adam. 

There were other tribes of people upon the Earth when the Hebrew's God created the Hebrew people to live their way of life who did not absorb these perceptions from their creation stories! 

Today, we still cling to and struggle beneath the weight of the Hebrew creation story. Think not? Watch and listen to your reaction to a naked man or woman captured on film by a photographer. - Gregory E. Woods, Keeper of Stories 10.23.14

naked woman & her cat in solitude 

TO THE ROOTS



Harlem couple in the early 20th century.

If we read the Bible, it tells us that
Adam and Eve fell by eating of the fruit
of the tree of the knowledge of good and
evil, but then what does it mean that
they covered their sexual parts? If the...
Christian churches had a mind to interpret
the Bible a little more intellectually,
they would immediately be able to
understand the origin of the Fall. Why
were Adam and Eve ashamed of their
sexual parts? Why did they cover them?
They should have covered their mouths
and hands. There is nothing wrong with
sexual organs. However, since people fell
through them, these parts of the human
body became a palace of shame where
heavenly love was violated. A spring of
true love should have welled forth from
there, but a fountain of false, devilish
love gushed out instead. That place
therefore became the stronghold of the
worst kind of love.

Adruma Victoria
May 18, 2016





President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama brought high levels of commitments to goals, excellence, style and diplomacy to the country and the world-at-large benefitted and learned some deep truths ...

 

Into the Mystics Waters...

explore the Adamic myth...
Feb. 16, 2013
Santee FeatherarmsSEX AND GOD

Erotic terms for Vagina

My temperate tomb

My pink sea

My secreting sleeve

My swollen flower

My river of love

My swollen embrace

My lover’s cavern

My fire down below

My lady of love

My pink curtains

My tender pink bloom

Feb. 4, 2013

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: the spirit thereof. . .

naked black woman in bikini sitting in water - Neek

 “It is emptiness. Slogans and stances against domestic violence have had some affect, and changed some, but the problem with the War on Drugs is the same as the War against Domestic Violence in a violent culture, such as ours in the United States. A People from a culture defined by a centuries long association of valuing women as the weaker vessel, less than man, as chattel, the reason for the downfall of Man is only prone to be angry at women, and to unleash rage upon them because the energy I've just described is prevalent, and untamed.

Nobody can stand in the midst of a fire and put it out with matches. It is impossible. Water and Earth can subdue heat, and put out Fire, and therein lays the central conflict. It is in the belief systems at work in this world, and the bodies of good and bad people.

How people treat Water tells the story of their religion, and history has shown us a People who believe the Earth lives under the domain of Man believes not in the value of women. The Earth, our Mother is the Womb, the spirit of Birth, and the teachings of the Female Principle arise from her. The lack of connection with these primal elements is the root of violence against women. Patriarchal religions roar against the thighs, and the sexual appeal, and the wombs of their women. It is a fact, and a religion this belief-value. Settle these contradictions, and many ills dissolve, and disappear into the fourth element: Wind.” ©Gregory E. Woods

white woman in cowboy hat & DSW boots !!!!

Adam & Eve concept of Valerie & Mike

In the Image of God - Sex, God & Marriage

God said, “Let us make man in our image and likeness to rule the fish in the sea, the birds of heaven, the cattle, all wild animals on earth, and all reptiles that crawl upon the earth.” So God created man in his own image; in the image of God he created him, male and female. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase; fill the earth and subdue it.”

In the opening chapter of the story of creation we read that God created humankind – both male and female –in his own image, and that he blessed them and commanded them to be fruitful and to care for the earth. Right from the start, God shows himself as the creator who “saw all that he had made, and it was very good.” Here, right at the beginning of the Bible, God reveals his heart to us. Here we discover God’s plan for our lives. Many, if not most, twentieth-century Christians dismiss the story of creation as a myth. Others insist that only the strictest, most literal interpretation of Genesis is valid. I simply have reverence for the word of the Bible as it stands. On the one hand, I would not think of arguing away anything in it; on the other, I believe scientists are right in cautioning that the biblical account of creation should not be taken too literally. As Peter says, “With the Lord, a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day”

God’s image sets us apart. Exactly how human beings were created remains a mystery for the creator alone to unveil. Yet I am sure of one thing: no person can find meaning or purpose without God. Rather than dismiss the creation story simply because we do not understand it, we need to find its inner, true meaning and rediscover its significance for us today. In our depraved age, reverence for God’s plan as described in Genesis has been almost completely lost. We do not treasure the meaning of creation enough – the significance of both man and woman as creatures formed in the image and likeness of God. This likeness sets us apart in a special way from the rest of creation and makes each human life sacred. To view life in any other way – for instance, to view others only in the light of their usefulness, and not as God sees them – is to disregard their worth and dignity. What does creation “in God’s image” mean? It means that we are to be a living picture of who God is. It means that we are to be co-workers who further his work of creating and nurturing life. It means that we belong to him, and that our being, our very existence, should always remain related to him and bound to his authority. The moment we separate ourselves from God we lose sight of our purpose here on earth. In Genesis we read that we have the living spirit of God: “The Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being”

In giving us his spirit, God made us responsible beings who possess the freedom to think and act, and to do so in love. But even if we possess a living spirit, we remain only images of the creator. And when we look at creation in a God-centered, not human-centered, way we will understand our true place in his divine order of things. The person who denies that God is his origin, who denies that God is a living reality in his life, will soon be lost in a terrible emptiness. Ultimately, he will find himself trapped in the self-idolatry that brings with it self-contempt and a contempt for the worth of others. All of us long for what is imperishable. What would we be if God had not breathed his breath into us? Darwin’s whole theory of evolution, by itself, is dangerous and futile because it is not God-centered. Something inside each of us cries out against the idea that we have been hatched by a purposeless universe. Deep within the human spirit is a thirst for what is lasting and imperishable. Since we are made in God’s image, and God is eternal, we cannot, at the end of life, merely vanish again like smoke. Our life is rooted in eternity. Christoph Blumhardt writes, “Our lives bear the mark of eternity, of the eternal God who created us to be his image. He does not want us to be swallowed up in the transitory, but calls us to himself, to what is eternal.”

God has set eternity in our hearts, and deep within each of us is a longing for eternity. When we deny this and live only for the present, everything that happens to us in life will remain cloaked in tormenting riddles, and we will remain deeply dissatisfied. This is especially true in the sexual area. Casual sex desecrates the soul’s yearning and capacity for that which is eternal. No person, no human arrangement, can ever fill the longing of our souls. The voice of eternity speaks most directly to our conscience. Therefore the conscience is perhaps the deepest element within us. It warns, rouses, and commands us in our God-given task. And every time the soul is wounded, our conscience makes us painfully aware of it. If we listen to our conscience, it can guide us. When we are separated from God, however, our conscience will waver and go astray. This is true not only for an individual, but also for a marriage. Already in Genesis, chapter 2, we read about the importance of marriage. When God created Adam, he said that everything he had made was good. Then he created woman to be a helpmate and partner to man, because he saw that it was not good for man to be alone.

This is a deep mystery: man and woman – the masculine and the feminine – belong together as a picture of who God is, and both can be found in him. Together they become what neither would be apart and alone. Everything created by God gives us an insight into his nature – mighty mountains, immense oceans, rivers, and great expanses of water; storms, thunder and lightning, huge icebergs; meadows, flowers, trees, and ferns. There is power, harshness, and manliness, but there is also gentleness, motherliness, and sensitivity. And just as the various forms of life in nature do not exist without each other, God’s children, too, male and female, do not exist alone. They are different, but they are both made in God’s image, and they need each other to fulfill their true destinies. When God’s image is defaced, life’s relationships lose purpose. It is a tragedy that in much of today’s society the differences between man and woman are blurred and distorted. The pure, natural image of God is being destroyed.

There is endless talk about women’s equality, but in practice women are abused and exploited more than ever before. In films, on television, in magazines, and on billboards the ideal woman (and increasingly, the ideal man) is portrayed as a mere sex object. Generally speaking, marriages in our society are no longer regarded as sacred. Increasingly they are seen as experiments or as contracts between two people who meas- ure everything in terms of their own interests. When marriages fail, there is almost always the option of no-fault divorce, and after that a new attempt at marriage with a new partner. Many people no longer even bother to make promises of faithfulness; they just live together. Women who bear and raise children or stay married to the same husband are sometimes scorned. And even when their marriage is a healthy one, they are often seen as victims of oppression who need to be “rescued” from male domination. Children are often no longer treasured. In Genesis, God commanded, “Be fruitful and increase.” Today we avoid the “burden” of unwanted offspring by means of legalized abortion. Children are viewed as a bother; they are too expensive to be brought into the world, to be raised, to be given a college education. They are an economic strain on our materialistic lives. They are even too time-consuming to love. Is it any wonder that so many in our time have lost hope?

That so many have given up on the possibility of enduring love? Life has lost its value; it has become cheap; most people no longer see it as a gift from God. Advances in biomedical engineering and in fetus screening techniques enable growing numbers of couples to choose an abortion for selfish reasons. Without God, life is absurd, and there is only darkness and the deep wound of separation from him. Despite the efforts of many dedicated individuals, the church today has failed miserably in grappling with this situation. All the more, each of us must go back to the beginning and ask ourselves once again, “Why did God create man and woman in the first place?” God created every person in his image, and he has set a specific task for every man, woman, and child on this earth, a task he expects us to fulfill. No one can disregard God’s purpose for his creation or for himself without suffering deep inner need.

The materialism of our time has emptied life of moral and spiritual purpose. It hinders us from seeing the world with awe and wonder, and it hinders us from seeing our true task. The sickness of soul and spirit brought about by consumerism has eaten so deeply into our conscience that it is no longer able to mirror good and evil clearly. Yet there is still a deep-seated need in each of us that makes us long for goodness. We will find healing only if we believe firmly that God created us and that he is the giver of life, love, and mercy.

As we read in the third chapter of the Gospel of John, “God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God sent his son into the world, not to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.” In God’s son – in Jesus – the creator’s image appears with utmost clarity and finality (Col. 1:15). As the perfect image of God, and as the only way to the Father, he brings us life and unity, joy and fulfillment. Only when our life is lived in him can we experience his truth and goodness, and only in him can we find our true destiny. This destiny is to be God’s image; to rule over the earth in his spirit, which is the creative, life-giving spirit of love.

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GNOSTIC CREATION MYTHS

Background: Gnosticism was sort of a variant of Christianity that existed until the late fifth century. It was more rooted in Greek philosophical traditions (and in the Syrian version of Zoroastrianism) than in Judaism. There wasn't really one single religion called Gnosticism, but rather a series of movements generally characterized by a belief in a secret knowledge ("Gnosis") imparted by God for the salvation of humanity, and an extreme duality between the material (which is very bad) and the spiritual (which is very good). Some went so far as to say that the Old Testament Creator of the Earth was really Satan, distinct from the divine and heavenly God of the New Testament. Under this circumstance they viewed death by self-inflicted starvation was the only correct answer. The point is that many of these people thought the bodies they lived in were horrible and irredeemable weights on their immortal souls.


Gnostics had a wide array of creation myths. One Gnostic myth says that humans existed in the distant past, but were destroyed by Darkness (or Satan or any of a number of evil Greek gods). Darkness then created Adam and Eve as a corrupted image (i.e. one in which the sinful/materialist acts like sex, eating, and the like are involved) of these ancient humans. Jesus was sent by God with secret gnosis to redeem these creatures from their evil, corporeal selves.


Another is the story of the 2nd century AD Egyptian Greek writer Hermes Trismegistus. He said man was created in the image of God, who is androgynous. God also created the Demiurge, who was the god of the material world. Man fell in love with the reflection of God in the waters of the material world, and went to look at it. This brought man under then control of the Demiurge, who created gender, the need for food, and so forth.


Most other Gnostic creation myths follow the general theme of a good, spiritual Creator God and a material seducer. The most interesting point is that the main creator is almost always the evil counterpart to God.


Some scholars claim that the creation story in the Book of John ("In the beginning was the Word") is a variant on the Gnostic creation story, but I have not been convinced of this. "Logos" (Greek for "word") is a Gnostic construct, but using one Gnostic buzzword did not a Gnostic make.


Source: a half dozen religious studies classes and "Encyclopedia of Creation Myths" by David Adams Leeming with Margaret Adams Leeming (Denver: ABC-CLIO, 1994).

photo: Convergence

HEBREW CREATION STORY

Judeo-Christian origins
The Book of Genesis, Holy Bible, King James Version (English)


Chapter 1:


In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.

And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.

And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

Chapter 2:


Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.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.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. 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, 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.

But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. 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. And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. 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. And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. 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.


And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it. And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 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. And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. 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. 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. 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; And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. 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. Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh. And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.