Priestly Poem
1 So were completed
the heavens and the
earth
and all their host.
2 And God completed,
in the seventh day,
his work which he had made.
And he ceased in the seventh day
from all his work which he had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day
and made it holy,
for it it he ceased from all his work,
which God created to make.
4 Theses are the generations
in which the heavens and the earth
were created.
Persian Creation Story
In the day Yahweh God
made earth and heavens,
5 and every plant of the field
before it was in the land,
and every herb of the field
before it sprang up.
For Yahweh God
had not caused it to rain
upon the land,
and there was no man to work the ground,
6 but a mist went up from the earth
and watered the whole face of the ground.
7 Then Yahweh
God formed the man
from the dust of the ground,
and blew into his nostrils the breath of life,
and the man became a living being.
8 And Yahweh God planted a garden,
in Eden in the East,
and put there the man
whom he had formed.
9 And Yahweh God made grow
out of the ground
every tree pleasing to the sight,
and good for food,
and
the Tree of Life
in the midst of the garden,
and the Tree of the
Knowledge of Good and Evil.
10 And a river went out of Eden
to water the garden,
and from there it separated
and became four heads.
11 The name of the first was Pishon,
which encircle all the land of Havilah,
in which there was the gold.
12 And the gold of the land was good.
There was the resin, and the stone, and the onyx.
13 And the name of the second river was Gihon,
which encircled all the land of Cush.
14 And the name of the third river was Hidagel,
which goes east to Assyria.
And the fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 And Yahweh
God took the man
and placed him in the
garden of Eden
to work it and to keep it.
16 And Yahweh God
commanded the man, saying,
"From every tree in garden you shall surely eat,
17 but from the tree
of the Knowledge of Good and Evil
you shall not eat from it.
For in the day you eat from it
you shall surely die."
18 And Yahweh God said,
"It is not good that the man should be alone,
I will make a helper as his counterpart."
19 Then Yahweh God formed from the ground
every beast of the field,
and every bird of the heavens,
and brought them to the man
to see what he would call them.
And everything that the man
called a
living being
that was its name.
20 So the man called names to every cattle,
and to every bird of the heavens,
and to every beast of the field.
But for the man there was not found a helper
as his counterpart.
21 Then Yahweh God caused a
deep sleep
to fall upon the man,
and he slept.
Then he took from one of his ribs,
and closed up flesh in its place.
22 And Yahweh
God made the rib
which he took from the man
for a wife,
and brought her to the man.
23 Then the man said,
"This is now bone of my bones,
and flesh of my flesh.
This one will be called wife,
because from husband this one was taken."
24 Therefore a husband
will leave his father and his mother,
and will cleave unto his wife,
and they will be for one flesh.
25 And they were both naked,
the man and his wife,
but they were not ashamed.