²⁸ God blessed them; and God said to them, “^(A)Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that ^[a]moves on the earth.” ²⁹ Then God said, “Behold, ^(B)I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the ^[b]surface of all the earth, and every tree ^[c]which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; ³⁰ and ^(C)to every animal of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that ^[d]moves on the earth ^[e]which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.

¹⁵ Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate it and tend it. ¹⁶ The Lord God ^(A)commanded the man, saying, “From any tree of the garden you may freely eat; ¹⁷ but from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not ^[a]eat, for on the day that you eat from it ^(B)you will certainly die.”

¹⁸ Then the Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone; ^(C)I will make him a helper ^[b]suitable for him.” ^19 (D)And out of the ground the Lord God formed every animal of the field and every bird of the sky, and ^(E)brought them to the man to see what he would call them; and whatever the man called a living creature, that was its name.