29. And God’s design was that man, being given every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to man it should be for food.

30. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, wherein there is life, God’s design was that green herbs shall serve for food; and it was as God intended.

31. And everything which survived, was as God had originally created, and still was in God’s design, and was good. And the evening and the morning were the beginning of the sixth day.

II.

1. Thus the heavens and the earth were reestablished, all the host of them.

2. And on the seventh day the recovery from the cataclysm and flood were complete; and the seventh day brought rest from the fight for survival against the cataclysm and its aftereffects.

3. And the seventh day brought God’s blessed peace, as the cataclysm had abated, leaving those of his creation who survived.

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4. These are the same regeneration of the heavens and of the earth as they were reestablished after the cataclysm previous to the one of this story, when the Lord God reestablished the earth and the heavens.

5. And every plant of the field before that cataclysm was in the earth, and every herb in the field before it grew. For the Lord God had not brought rain upon the earth in this region, and there was not a man to till the ground.

6. But there was this cataclysm, and great inundations rose over the earth.

7. And it was God’s will that man should rise up from the earth, and keep the breath of life, and remain a living soul. This is his story.

8. And it was God’s will, after a cataclysm, that a continent eastward be established, and there in Eden lived the man of this story.

9. And from this land grew other civilizations, on other lands, with the motherland in the midst of all being the seat of wisdom, of all knowledge, both good and evil.

10. And the inundation destroyed Eden, and left only its four offspring lands.

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