Genesis 2:4

That is how God made the world. At first when Yahweh God made the world,

Anindilyakwa (portions)

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

3Then he said, “This seventh day I am resting. So this day is different. It will be separate from the other days, because I have rested from my work today. This is my holy day.”

5there were no plants on the land and no seeds had started to grow. And he hadn't yet made the rain fall on the ground. And there were no people to grow trees and plants.

Read all of Genesis 2

Cross References

Genesis 1:1In the very beginning, long, long ago, God made the earth below and the heavens above. At the time when God first started creating the world,

Genesis 1:28And then he blessed them and said to them, “Have children, and let them have children too, so that they can live in the world and rule over it. You will rule over the fish and the birds and the animals.

Genesis 5:1When God created people, he made them like himself. He created them male and female. Then he blessed them and said, “You will be called ‘people’.” These are the names of Adam's descendants.

Genesis 11:10This is about Shem's descendants. After the flood two years went by and then Shem was 100 years old and he had a son called Arpachshad.

Genesis 25:19This is the story of Abraham's son Isaac.

Genesis 36:9Esau was the ancestor of the Edomite people, and these are the names of his descendants.

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