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the image of God did he thus create him. But mistake me not, whereas you conceive of God as masculine, and more perfect, yet you must not understand me, as if God made mankind so exactly after his own image, that he made none but males; for I tell you, he made females as well as males, as you shall hear more particularly hereafter.

28 And having made them thus male and female, he had them make use of the distinction of sexes that he had given them; and blessing them, God said unto them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth with your offspring, and be lords thereof, and have dominion also over the fish of the sea, and over the fowls of the air, as well as over beasts and cattle, and every creeping thing that moves upon the earth.

29 And God said, Behold, I give you every frugiferous fruit-bearing herb which is upon the face of the earth, such as the Strawberry, the several sorts of Corn, as Rye, Wheat, and Rice, as also the delicious fruits of Trees, to you they shall be for meat.

30 But for the beasts of the earth, and the fowls of the air, and for every living thing that creepeth upon the earth, the worser kind of herbs, and ordinary grass, I have assigned for them: and so it came to pass that mankind are made lords and possessors of the choicest

fruits of the earth, and the beasts of the field are to be contented with baser herbage, and the common grass.

31 And God viewed all the works that he had made, and behold, they were exceeding good; and the evening and the morning was the sixth natural day.

CHAP. II.

3 The Original of the Jewish Sabbaths, from God's resting himself from his six days' labors. 5 Herbs and Plants before either Rain, Gardening or Husbandry, and the reason why it was so. 7 Adam made of the dust of the ground, and his soul breathed in at his nostrils. 8 The Planting of Paradise. 9 A wonderful Tree there, that would continue youth, and make a man immortal upon earth: Another strange Tree, namely the Tree of knowledge of good and evil. 11 The Rivers of Paradise, Phasis, Gihon, Tigris, Euphrates. 18 The high commendation of Matrimony. 19 Adam gives names to all kind of creatures, except fishes. 21 Woman is made of a rib of Adam, a deep sleep falling upon him, his mind then also being in a trance. 24 The first Institution of Marriage.

1 Thus the Heavens and the Earth were finished, and all the creatures, wherewith they were garnished and replenished.

2 And God having within six days perfected all his work, on the seventh day he rested himself.