Book of Abraham, Early 1842

30. And thus we will finish the heav ens and the earth, and all the hosts of  them. And the Gods said among them selves, on the seventh time, we will end  our work, which we have counselled; and  we will rest on the seventh time from all our  work which we have counselled. And the  Gods concluded upon the seventh time,  because, that on the seventh time they  would rest from all their works, which they,  the Gods, counselled among themselves  to form, and sanctified it. And thus  were their decisions, at the time that they  counselled among themselves to form the  heavens and the earth. And the Gods  came down and formed these, the genera tions of the heavens, and of the earth,  when they were formed, in the day that  the Gods formed the earth and the heav ens, according to all that, which they had  said, concerning every plant of the field,  before it was in the earth, and every  herb of the field, before it grew; for the  Gods had not caused it to rain upon the  earth, when they counselled to do them;  and had not formed a man to till the  ground; but there went up a mist from  the earth, and watered the whole face of  the ground. And the Gods formed man  from the dust of the ground, and took his  spirit, that is the man’s spirit, and put it  into him, and breathed into his nostrils  the breath of life, and man became a liv ing soul.

31. And the Gods planted a garden,  eastward in Eden, and there they put the  man, whose spirit they had put into the  body, which they had formed. And out  of the ground made the Gods to grow ev ery 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  knowledge of good and evil. There was  a river running out of Eden, to water the  garden, and from thence it was parted  and became into four heads. And the  Gods took the man and put him in the  Garden of Eden, to dress it and to keep  it: and the Gods commanded the man,  saying, of every tree of the Garden, thou  mayest freely eat, but of the tree of  knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt  not eat of it, for in the time that thou eat est thereof, thou shalt surely die. Now  I, Abraham, saw that it was after the  Lord’s time, which was after the time of  Kolob; for as yet, the Gods had not ap pointed unto Adam his reckoning.

32. And the Gods said, Let us make  an help meet for the man, for it is not  good that the man should be alone, there fore we will form an help meet for him.  And the Gods caused a deep sleep to fall  upon Adam; and he slept, and they took  one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh  in the stead thereof, and the rib which  the Gods had taken from man, formed  they a woman, and brought her unto the  man. And Adam said this was bone of  my bones, and flesh of my flesh, now she  shall be called woman, because she was  taken out of man; therefore shall a man  leave his father and his mother, and shall  cleave unto his wife, and they shall be  one flesh. And they were both naked,  the man and his wife, and were not  ashamed. And out of the ground the  Gods formed every beast of the field, and  every fowl of the air, and brought  unto Adam to see what he would call  them; and whatsoever Adam called every  living creature, that should be the name  thereof. And Adam gave names to all  cattle, to the fowl of the air, to every  beast of the field; and for Adam there  was found an help meet for him. [p. 722]