Genesis 2:4

This is the story of the heavens and earth when they were created. At the time when the Lord God made earth and heaven,

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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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3God blessed the seventh day and set it apart, for in it he rested from all the creative work which he had done.

5there were not yet any plants on the earth, and no vegetation had sprung up; for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no one to till the soil.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:1In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth,

Genesis 1:28Then God blessed them, and said to them: ‘Be fruitful, grow in number, fill the earth and govern it; rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that crawls on the ground,’

Genesis 5:1This is the list of the descendants of Adam. On the day that God created human beings, he made them in his own image.

Genesis 11:10These are the descendants of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Genesis 25:19These are the descendants of Isaac, Abraham’s son. Abraham fathered Isaac.

Genesis 36:9These are the descendants of Esau the father of the Edomites in 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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