Genesis 2:4
This story is about the time when God made the earth and the sky.
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Genesis 1:1First of all, a long time ago, God made everything. He made the sky, and he made the earth. He made all the things that are everywhere.
Genesis 1:28God was good to them, and he said to them, “You will have lots of kids, and the earth will be full of people. You people will be boss over all the earth. You will be boss over the fish in the sea, and you will be boss over the birds in the sky, and you will be boss over all the animals that live on the land.”
Genesis 5:1This is the story about Adam’s family. You see, when God made people, he made them to be like himself.
Genesis 11:10This is the story about Shem’s family. Shem was 100 years old when he had a son called Arfaxad. That was 2 years after the big flood.
Genesis 25:19This is the story about Abraham’s son Isaac and his family.
Genesis 36:9Esau’s family was called the Edom tribe, and they lived in the hill country called Seir. These are the names of Esau’s sons and grand-sons.
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 →