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The name of the first is Pishon; it is the one which skirts the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
And Adam said: This is now bone of my bones And flesh of my flesh; She shall be called Woman, Because she was taken out of Man."
Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Whoever sheds man's blood, By man his blood shall be shed; For in the image of God He made man.
And God said: "This is the sign of the covenant which I make between Me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:
"I set My rainbow in the cloud, and it shall be for the sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.
"It shall be, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the rainbow shall be seen in the cloud;
'Then, if you walk contrary to Me, and are not willing to obey Me, I will bring on you seven times more plagues, according to your sins.
I will also send wild beasts among you, which shall rob you of your children, destroy your livestock, and make you few in number; and your highways shall be desolate.
then I also will walk contrary to you in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols; and My soul shall abhor you.
Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
And those of you who are left shall waste away in their iniquity in your enemies' lands; also in their fathers' iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
The name of the second river is Gihon; it is the one which goes around the whole land of Cush.
Then the rib which the LORD God had taken from man He made into a woman, and He brought her to the man.
And I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant; when you are gathered together within your cities I will send pestilence among you; and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
'And as for those of you who are left, I will send faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee; they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.
Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them; for I am the LORD their God.