Thus was heav&ebar; ∧ erth fynished wyth
all their apparell: &abar;d &ibar; þe; seu&ebar;th daye
god ended hys worke which he had
made ∧ rested in þe; seventh daye fr&obar; all his workes
which he had made. And God blessed þe; seventh
daye / and sanctyfyed it / for in it he rested
from all his workes which he had created and
made.
¶ These are the generations of heaven ∧ erth
when they were created / in the tyme when the
LORde God created heaven and erth and all
the shrubbes of the felde be fore they were in the
erthe. And all the herbes of the felde before they
sprange: for the LORde God had yet sent no
rayne vpon the erth / nether was there yet any
man to tylle the erth. But there arose a myste
out of the ground and watered all the face of
the erth: Then the LORde God shope man / even
of the moulde of the erth and brethed into
his face the breth of lyfe. So man was made a
lyvynge soule.
¶ The LORde God also planted a garden in
Eden from the begynnynge / and there he sette
-- --
man whom he had formed. And the LORde
God made to sprynge out of the erth / all maner
trees bewtyfull to the syghte and pleasant
to eate / and the tree of lyfe in the middes of the
garden: and also the tree of knowlege of good
and euell.
¶ And there spronge a rever out of Eden to
water the garden / and thence devided it selfe /
and grewe in to foure principall waters. The
name of the one is Phison / he it is that compasseth
all the lande of heuila / where gold groweth.
And the gold of that contre ys precious /
there is found bedellion and a stone called Onix.
The name of the seconde ryver is Gihon /
which compassyth all the lande of Inde. And
the name of the thyrde river is Hidekell / which
runneth on the easte syde of the assyryans
And the fourth river is Euphrates.
¶ And the LORde God toke Adam and put
him in the garden of Eden / to dresse it and to
kepe it: and the LORde God c&obar;maunded Ad&abar;
saynge: of all the trees of the gard&ebar; se tho&ubar;
eate. But of the tre of knowlege of good and
badd se that thou eate not: for even þe; same daye
thou eatest of it / thou shalt surely dye.
¶ And the LORde God sayd: it is not good
that man shulde be alone / I will make hym an
helper to beare him company: And after þt; the
LORde God had make of the erth all maner
beastes of the felde / and all maner foules of the
ayre / he brought them vnto Adam to see what
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he wold call them. And as Ad&abar; called all maner
livynge beastes: ev&ebar; so are their names. And
Adam gave names vnto all maner catell / and
vnto the foules of the ayre / and vnto all maner
beastes of the felde. But there was no helpe founde
vnto Adam to beare him companye
Then the LORde God cast a slomber on Adam
/ and he slepte. And then he toke out one of
his rybbes / and in stede ther of he fylled vp the
place with flesh. And the LORde God made of
the rybbe which he toke out of Adam / a wom&abar;
and brought her vnto Adam. Then sayd Ad&abar;
this is once bone of my boones / and flesh of my
flesh. This shall be called woman: because she
was take of the man. For this cause shall a man
leve father and mother ∧ cleve vnto his wyfe / ∧
they shall be one flesh. And they were ether of
them naked / both Adam and hys wyfe / &abar;d were
not ashamed:
Tyndale [1534], ¶ The newe Testament / dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale: and fynesshed in the yere of oure Lorde God A. M. D. ∧. xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember (, ANWERP) [word count] [B03000].
