Whoever sheds man’s blood,
his blood will be shed by man,
for God made man in His image.

Then the Lord God made the rib He had taken from the man into a woman and brought her to the man.

No shrub of the field had yet grown on the land, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not made it rain on the land, and there was no man to work the ground.

These are the family records of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created man, He made him in the likeness of God;

the Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

Then the Lord said, “I will wipe off from the face of the earth mankind, whom I created, together with the animals, creatures that crawl, and birds of the sky—for I regret that I made them.”

while the man silently watched her to see whether or not the Lord had made his journey a success.