Genesis 2:4

These are the geneses of the heavens and the earth when they were created,—in the day when Yahweh God made earth and heavens.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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

3And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it,—because therein, rested he from all his work which God, by creating, had made.

5Now, no bush of the field, as yet—was in the earth, and, no herb of the field, as yet had sprung up,—because Yahweh God had not sent rain on the earth, and, man, was there none to till the ground;

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Cross References

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

Genesis 1:28And God blessed them, and God said to them Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it,—and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the bird of the heavens, and over every living thing that moveth on the land.

Genesis 5:1This, is the record of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man, In the likeness of God, made he him:

Genesis 11:10These, are the genealogies of Shem, Shem was a hundred years old when he begat Arpachshad, two years after the flood

Genesis 25:19And, these, are the generations of Isaac, son of Abraham,—Abraham, begat Isaac;

Genesis 36:9And, these, are the generations of Esau father of Edom,—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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