Glimpses of God’s Power

⁴ This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. On the day the LORD God made earth and sky ⁵ before any wild plants appeared on the earth, and before any field crops grew, because the LORD God hadn’t yet sent rain on the earth and there was still no human being to farm the fertile land, ⁶ though a stream rose from the earth and watered all of the fertile land ⁷ the LORD God formed the human from the topsoil of the fertile land and blew life’s breath into his nostrils. The human came to life. ⁸ The LORD God planted a garden in Eden in the east and put there the human he had formed. ⁹ In the fertile land, the LORD God grew every beautiful tree with edible fruit, and also he grew the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. ¹⁵ The LORD God took the human and settled him in the garden of Eden to farm it and to take care of it.