1 Heaven and earth and everything in them were finished.
2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing. On the seventh day he stopped the work he had been doing.
3 Then God blessed the seventh day and set it apart as holy, because on that day he stopped all his work of creation.
4 This is the account of heaven and earth when they were created, at the time when the Lord God made earth and heaven.
5 Wild bushes and plants were not on the earth yet because the Lord God hadn’t sent rain on the earth. Also, there was no one to farm the land.
6 Instead, underground water would come up from the earth and water the entire surface of the ground.
7 Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the earth and blew the breath of life into his nostrils. The man became a living being.