Genesis 2:4

These are the generations of heaven and earth, when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made heaven and earth,

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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,

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3And he blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. For in it, he had ceased from all his work: the work whereby God created whatever he should make.

5and every sapling of the field, before it would rise up in the land, and every wild plant, before it would germinate. For the Lord God had not brought rain upon the earth, and there was no man to work the land.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:1In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.

Genesis 1:28And God blessed them, and he said, “Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and the flying creatures of the air, and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”

Genesis 5:1This is the book of the lineage of Adam. In the day that God created man, he made him to the likeness of God.

Genesis 11:10These are the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old when he conceived Arphaxad, two years after the great flood.

Genesis 25:19Likewise, these are the generations of Isaac, the son of Abraham. Abraham conceived Isaac,

Genesis 36:9So these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom, at mount 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 →

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