Genesis 2

 thenOn the day that Yahweh of the Elohim made the earth and the heavens, when no plant or herb had yet grown – he had not yet made it rain, and there was no one to farm the soil, but a spring would bubble up and water the whole face of the ground. On that day, Yahweh of the Elohim formed adam – the earth-creature – from the dust and breathed life into its nose.

Yahweh of the Elohim planted a garden in Eden, in the East, and placed the adam there. He also grew many trees in the garden, trees of beauty and fruit, and in the centre the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. A river flows from Eden to irrigate the garden and from there splits four ways. The Pishon runs around the mountains of Havilah, where there is excellent gold, as well as bdellium and onyx. The Gihon flows through Cush. The Tigris flows east of Assyria. And then, of course, the Euphrates. Yahweh of the Elohim appointed the adam as a gardener and said “All the fruit of these trees is yours to eat, except for the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. If you eat that fruit you will die the same day.”

Then he said, “It’s not good that this adam is alone; I will make it a partner. So from the ground, Yahweh of the Elohim formed every animal of the field and every bird of the air and brought them to the adam to see what it would call them; whatever the adam called a creature, that was its name. But when the adam had named all of them, still there was no partner to help it. So Yahweh of the Elohim put the adam into a deep sleep, took a piece from its side, and closed up the wound. And with that side of the adam, Yahweh of the Elohim created a woman and brought her to the adam. Who said:

“This is bone hammered out from my bone,
and flesh torn out from my flesh;
she is Woman
who will take from Man.”

And so a man leaves his parents and grasps a woman so they become one flesh.

Both the adam and woman were naked, but neither were ashamed.