Genesis 2:4

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created. On the day that Adonai 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,

In Context

3God blessed the seventh day, and made it set apart holy, because he rested in it from all his work of barah' ·creation from nothingness· which he had done. + 2:3 Day 7: God rests and appreciates his creation; He spoke and, in obedience, creation came into being (Col 1:12-17). In Hebrew, shavat means ·rested·; this is why the seventh day is called Shabbat ·repose, desist· (Ex. 20:11). (A:4, S:2)

5no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Adonai God had not caused it to rain on the earth. There was no human to till the ground, + 2:5 There was no 'adam ·human· to till the 'adamah ·ground·

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Cross References

Genesis 1:1B'resheet Elohim bara' ·In the beginning of the beginning, God created from nothingness· את the heavens את and the earth.

Genesis 1:28+ 1:28. Gen 1:28 (#7.432): T. To be fruitful and multiply, to fill the earth and kavash ·subdue it / bring into submission / conquer it· and radah ·rule over / have dominion over· the creatures / R. To have children with one’s wife T. Note: Kavash ·subdue / conquer· or radah ·to have dominion / rule over· in Hebrew is understood as to have dominion as a king who is both tender and firm who rightly controls his subjects God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and bring it into subjection, subdue it. Have authority over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Genesis 5:1This is + 5:1. MPr: King Messiah will not come till all souls predestined for it have appeared in human bodies on earth. (Gen 5:1 in Midrash 24). (Rom 11:25) the book of the generations of Adam [Human, Red earth]. In the day that God created man, he made him in God’s likeness.

Genesis 11:10This is the history of the generations of Shem [Name]: Shem [Name] was one hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Genesis 25:19This is the history of the generations of Isaac [Laughter], Abraham [Father of a multitude]’s son. Abraham [Father of a multitude] became the father of Isaac [Laughter].

Genesis 36:9This is the history of the generations of Esau [Hairy] the father of the Edomites [Red] 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 →

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