The Lord God Almighty created the universe including planet earth and all that is in them. He did it in six days and on the seventh day He rested from his labors. This is an abbreviated version of the creation story as recorded in Genesis Chapter 1:1-31. Now six days could be understood as six days of our week, or it could be six divinely created days. The apostle Peter in 2 Peter 3:8 reminded us “But do not forget this one thing, dear friend: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.”
Among the many things that the Lord God created was the Garden east of Eden. As those of us who own a garden know, a garden needs to be cared for or it would become overgrown with weeds. Before the Lord God planted a garden in the east in Eden, He “formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being (Genesis 2:7), and there He put the man He had formed (v.8). And the Lord God made all kinds of trees grow out of the ground – trees that were pleasing to the eye and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the Tree of Life and the Tree of The Knowledge of Good and Evil (v.9).
The Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and to care for it. And the Lord God commanded the man. “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat of it you will surely die” (Genesis 2:15-17). Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field, and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them, and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. So, the man gave the names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.
But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So, the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was sleeping, He took one of the man’s ribs and closed the place with flesh. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib He had taken out of the man, and He brought her to the man. The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman for she was taken out of man.” For this reason, a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh. The man and his wife were both naked and they felt no shame. (Genesis 2:21-25)