First Reading: Genesis 2:4-9, 15-17

⁴ These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
⁵ when no plant of the field was yet in the earth and no herb of the field had yet sprung up — for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was no man to till the ground;
⁶ but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground —
⁷ then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.
⁸ And the LORD God planted a garden in Eden, in the east; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
⁹ And out of the ground the LORD God made 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 the knowledge of good and evil.
¹⁵ The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to till it and keep it.
¹⁶ And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, “You may freely eat of every tree of the garden;
¹⁷ but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die.”