Genesis 2:4

This is the book of the generation of heaven and earth, when + 2:4 Or, it took place.they were made, in the day in which the Lord God made the heaven and the earth,

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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 blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it he ceased from all his works which God + 2:3 Or, made in the beginning. See Acts 1. 1.began to do.

5and every herb of the field before it was on the earth, and all the grass of the field before it sprang up, for God had not rained on the earth, and there was not a man to cultivate it.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:1In the beginning God made the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:28And God blessed them, saying, Increase and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the seas and flying creatures of heaven, and all the cattle and all the earth, and all the reptiles that creep on the earth.

Genesis 5:1This is the genealogy + 5:1 Gr. book of generation.of men in the day in which God made Adam; in the image of God he made him:

Genesis 11:10And these are the generations of Sem: and Sem was a hundred years old when he begot Arphaxad, the second year after the flood.

Genesis 25:19And these are the generations of Isaac the son of Abraam.

Genesis 36:9And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom in the 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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