The reservoir having been constructed, and the farming land having dried out, the narrative continues with the planting of the fields and orchards in the Garden in Eden, in parallel with the Sumerian accounts of Kharsag.
| jerusalem bible | (alternative genesis) |
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God said, 'Let the earth produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants, and fruit trees bearing fruit with their seed inside, on the earth'. And it was so. |
The Shining Ones said, 'The earth is green with fresh new grass, and seed-producing plants of (various) kinds. Let us plant the land with trees of [different] kinds that have fruit with seed'. And it was done. |
