Genesis 2:4

These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

In Context

3And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.

5In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

Read all of Genesis 2

Cross References

Genesis 1:1At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:28And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.

Genesis 5:1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;

Genesis 11:10These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;

Genesis 25:19Now these are the generations of Abraham's son Isaac:

Genesis 36:9And these are the generations of Esau, the father of the Edomites in the hill-country of Seir:

Matthew Henry on Genesis 2:2-4

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. We have here, I. The settlement of the kingdom of nature, in God's resting from the work of creation, v. 1, 2 . Here observe, 1. The creatures made… Read the whole commentary →

This Verse In Other Editions

Study Genesis 2:4