Genesis 2:4

These [are] births of the heavens and of the earth in their being prepared, in the day of Jehovah God's making earth and heavens;

Young's Literal Translation

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 blesseth the seventh day, and sanctifieth it, for in it He hath ceased from all His work which God had prepared for making.

5and no shrub of the field is yet in the earth, and no herb of the field yet sprouteth, for Jehovah God hath not rained upon the earth, and a man there is not to serve the ground,

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Cross References

Genesis 1:1In the beginning of God's preparing the heavens and the earth —

Genesis 1:28And God blesseth them, and God saith to them, 'Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over every living thing that is creeping upon the earth.'

Genesis 5:1This [is] an account of the births of Adam: In the day of God's preparing man, in the likeness of God He hath made him;

Genesis 11:10These [are] births of Shem: Shem [is] a son of an hundred years, and begetteth Arphaxad two years after the deluge.

Genesis 25:19And these [are] births of Isaac, Abraham's son: Abraham hath begotten Isaac;

Genesis 36:9And these [are] births 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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