Genesis 2:4
This is the history of 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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Genesis 1:1In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
Genesis 1:28God blessed them. God said to them, “Be fruitful, multiply, fill the earth, and subdue it. Have dominion 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 the book of the generations of Adam. 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: Shem 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, Abraham’s son. Abraham became the father of Isaac.
Genesis 36:9This is the history of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites 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 →