Liber Genesis

Genesis, chapter 2, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 2 Vulgate

   1 Igitur perfecti sunt caeli et terra et omnis exercitus eorum.
   2 Complevitque Deus die septimo opus suum, quod fecerat, et requievit die septimo ab universo opere, quod patrarat.
   3 Et benedixit Deus diei septimo et sanctificavit illum, quia in ipso requieverat ab omni opere suo, quod creavit Deus, ut faceret.
   4 Istae sunt generationes caeli et terrae, quando creata sunt. In die quo fecit Dominus Deus terram et caelum
   5 omne virgultum agri, antequam oriretur in terra, omnisque herba regionis, priusquam germinaret; non enim pluerat Dominus Deus super terram, et homo non erat, qui operaretur humum,
   6 sed fons ascendebat e terra irrigans universam superficiem terrae
   7 tunc formavit Dominus Deus hominem pulverem de humo et inspiravit in nares eius spiraculum vitae, et factus est homo in animam viventem.
   8 Et plantavit Dominus Deus paradisum in Eden ad orientem, in quo posuit hominem, quem formaverat.
   9 Produxitque Dominus Deus de humo omne lignum pulchrum visu et ad vescendum suave, lignum etiam vitae in medio paradisi lignumque scientiae boni et mali.
   10 Et fluvius egrediebatur ex Eden ad irrigandum paradisum, qui inde dividitur in quattuor capita.
   11 Nomen uni Phison: ipse est, qui circuit omnem terram Hevila, ubi est aurum;
   12 et aurum terrae illius optimum est; ibi invenitur bdellium et lapis onychinus.
   13 Et nomen fluvio secundo Geon: ipse est, qui circuit omnem terram Aethiopiae.
   14 Nomen vero fluminis tertii Tigris: ipse vadit ad orientem Assyriae. Fluvius autem quartus ipse est Euphrates.
   15 Tulit ergo Dominus Deus hominem et posuit eum in paradiso Eden, ut operaretur et custodiret illum;
   16 praecepitque Dominus Deus homini dicens: "Ex omni ligno paradisi comede;
   17 de ligno autem scientiae boni et mali ne comedas; in quocumque enim die comederis ex eo, morte morieris"
   18 Dixit quoque Dominus Deus: "Non est bonum esse hominem solum; faciam ei adiutorium simile sui"
   19 Formatis igitur Dominus Deus de humo cunctis animantibus agri et universis volatilibus caeli, adduxit ea ad Adam, ut videret quid vocaret ea; omne enim, quod vocavit Adam animae viventis, ipsum est nomen eius.
   20 Appellavitque Adam nominibus suis cuncta pecora et universa volatilia caeli et omnes bestias agri; Adae vero non inveniebatur adiutor similis eius.
   21 Immisit ergo Dominus Deus soporem in Adam. Cumque obdormisset, tulit unam de costis eius et replevit carnem pro ea;
   22 et aedificavit Dominus Deus costam, quam tulerat de Adam, in mulierem et adduxit eam ad Adam.
   23 Dixitque Adam: "Haec nunc os ex ossibus meis et caro de carne mea! Haec vocabitur Virago, quoniam de viro sumpta est haec"
   24 Quam ob rem relinquet vir patrem suum et matrem et adhaerebit uxori suae; et erunt in carnem unam.
   25 Erant autem uterque nudi, Adam scilicet et uxor eius, et non erubescebant.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
   2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
   3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
   4 ¶ These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
   5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
   6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
   7 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 soul.
   8 ¶ And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
   9 And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
   10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.
   11 The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold;
   12 And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
   13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
   14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
   15 And the LORD God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.
   16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat:
   17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
   18 ¶ And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.
   19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
   20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found an help meet for him.
   21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;
   22 And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.
   23 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.
   24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
   25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.