Drafted by Grok 4.7 on 8 October 2026. First draft. Not independently reviewed. Leningrad Codex, through the Open Scriptures Westminster Leningrad Codex. The written consonants are printed. A Masoretic reading is footnoted when it differs. No Dead Sea reading was substituted unless it was read from a fragment. The Samaritan Pentateuch and the Greek, Syriac, and Latin versions are witnesses, not the default.
1The heavens and the earth were finished, and all their array.
2On the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he stopped on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.
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Shavat is “he stopped.” The line does not say he was tired. “Rested” is the live alternative, and it is not printed.
3God blessed the seventh day and set it apart, because on it he stopped from all his work, the work of creating that God had done.
4These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, on the day Yahweh God made earth and sky.
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Yahweh prints the divine name. The consonants in the Hebrew are YHWH. The vowels in “Yahweh” are a later convention, not a record of how the oldest copies said the name. See the glossary.
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Toledot are generations, the line of what comes from something. Here it heads the account of heaven and earth. This is the first verse in the book that writes the four consonants YHWH.
5No shrub of the field was yet on the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, because Yahweh God had not made it rain on the earth, and there was no human to work the ground.
6A flow would come up from the earth and water the whole face of the ground.
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The word ed is rare. A mist, a spring, and a flood have all been proposed. The line prints “a flow” of water coming up from the earth. The precise thing is uncertain.
7Yahweh God formed the human of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the human became a living being.
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Adam and adamah are a pair: the human and the ground. “The human” is printed while the Hebrew still says ha-adam, the human. The personal name Adam is used once the copy uses the name that way.
8Yahweh God planted a garden in Eden, to the east, and there he placed the human whom he had formed.
9Yahweh God made every tree grow from the ground, desirable to see and good for food, and the tree of life in the middle of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10A river goes out from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divides and becomes four headwaters.
11The name of the first is Pishon. It is the one that goes around the whole land of Havilah, where the gold is.
12The gold of that land is good. Bdellium is there, and onyx stone.
13The name of the second river is Gihon. It is the one that goes around the whole land of Cush.
14The name of the third river is Tigris. It is the one that goes east of Asshur. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
15Yahweh God took the human and set him in the garden of Eden, to work it and to keep it.
16Yahweh God commanded the human, “From every tree of the garden you may eat, yes, eat.
17But from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat from it, because on the day you eat from it you will die. You will die.”
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The verb is doubled, mot tamut, an emphatic “die, you shall die.” Both beats are printed.
18Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the human to be alone. I will make him a helper who matches him.”
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Ezer kenegdo is a helper corresponding to him, face to face, not a junior assistant. “Who matches him” is the sense printed.
19Yahweh God formed from the ground every animal of the field and every bird of the sky, and he brought them to the human to see what he would call them. Whatever the human called a living creature, that was its name.
20The human gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the sky, and to every animal of the field, but for the human no helper who matched him was found.
21Yahweh God made a deep sleep fall on the human, and he slept. He took one of his sides and closed up the flesh in its place.
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Tsela is a side, the same word used later for the side of a structure. “Rib” is a narrower guess, and it is not printed.
22Yahweh God built the side he had taken from the human into a woman, and he brought her to the human.
23The human said, “This one, at last, is bone from my bones and flesh from my flesh. This one will be called woman, because she was taken from man.”
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Ishah and ish are the pair: woman and man. The sentence is a word-match, and the English keeps “woman” and “man” so the match can be heard.
24That is why a man leaves his father and his mother and clings to his wife, and they become one flesh.
25The two of them were naked, the human and his wife, and they felt no shame.