Genesis 2:7-14 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

7. And the Lord God formed man of the slime of the earth: and breathed into his face the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

8. And the Lord God had planted a paradise of pleasure from the beginning: wherein he placed man whom he had formed.

9. And the Lord God brought forth of the ground all manner of trees, fair to behold, and pleasant to eat of: the tree of life also in the midst of paradise: and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

10. And a river went out the place of pleasure to water paradise, which from thence is divided into four heads.

11. The name of the one is Phison: that is it which compasseth all the land of Hevilath, where gold groweth.

12. And the gold of that land is very good: there is found bdellium, and the onyx stone.

13. And the name of the second river is Gehon: the same is it that compasseth all the land of Ethiopia

14. And the name of the third river is Tigris: the same passeth along by the Assyrians. And the fourth river is Euphrates.

Genesis 2