Genesis 2:4

That is how God created the heavens and the earth. God, whose name is Yahweh, made the heavens and the earth.

Translation for Translators

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

3God blessed each seventh day, and he set those days apart to be special days, because on the seventh day God did not work any more, after finishing all his work of creating everything.

5At first there were no plants growing, because Yahweh God had not yet caused rain to fall on the ground. Furthermore, there was no one to till the ground for planting crops.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:1Long, long ago God created the heavens and the earth.

Genesis 1:28God blessed them, saying, “Produce many children, who will live all over the earth and rule over it. I want them to rule over the fish and the birds and over all creatures that scurry across the ground.”

Genesis 5:1Here is a list of the descendants of Adam. When God created humans, he caused them to be like him in many ways.

Genesis 11:10◄This is a bigger list/I will now tell you more► of the descendants of Shem: Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arpachshad.

Genesis 25:19◄This is an account of/I will now tell you about► Abraham’s son, Isaac. Abraham became the father of Isaac,

Genesis 36:9◄Here is/I will now give you► another list of the male descendants of Esau. He was the ancestor of the Edom people-group who live in the Seir area.

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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