1:3 Blessed ¹  is ²  the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed ³  us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms in Christ. 1:4 For ⁴  he chose us in Christ ⁵  before the foundation of the world that we may be holy and unblemished ⁶  in his sight ⁷  in love. ⁸  1:5 He did this by predestining ⁹  us to adoption as his ¹⁰  sons ¹¹  through Jesus Christ, according to the pleasure ¹²  of his will – 1:6 to the praise of the glory of his grace ¹³  that he has freely bestowed on us in his dearly loved Son. ¹⁴  1:7 In him ¹⁵  we have redemption through his blood, ¹⁶  the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace 1:8 that he lavished on us in all wisdom and insight.

2:4 This is the account ¹  of the heavens and the earth ²  when they were created – when the Lord God ³  made the earth and heavens. ⁴ 

2:5 Now ⁵  no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field ⁶  had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. ⁷  2:6 Springs ⁸  would well up ⁹  from the earth and water ¹⁰  the whole surface of the ground. ¹¹  2:7 The Lord God formed ¹²  the man from the soil of the ground ¹³  and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, ¹⁴  and the man became a living being. ¹⁵ 

2:8 The Lord God planted an orchard ¹⁶  in the east, ¹⁷  in Eden; ¹⁸  and there he placed the man he had formed. ¹⁹  2:9 The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, ²⁰  every tree that was pleasing to look at ²¹  and good for food. (Now ²²  the tree of life ²³  and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil ²⁴  were in the middle of the orchard.)

2:10 Now ²⁵  a river flows ²⁶  from Eden ²⁷  to water the orchard, and from there it divides ²⁸  into four headstreams. ²⁹