Genesis 2:1-5

The Seventh Day, God Rests

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and w all the host of them. 2 And x on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. 3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

The Creation of Man and Woman

4 y These are the generations
of the heavens and the earth when they were created,
in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

5 When no z bush of the field 1 was yet in the land 2 and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up - for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man a to work the ground,

  1. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:19
    And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.
    Psalms 33:6
    By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, and by the breath of his mouth all their host.
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 20:8 - 11
    Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
    Exodus 31:17
    It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.'
    Deuteronomy 5:12 - 14
    'Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.
    Hebrews 4:4
    For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.
  3. Cross References
    Genesis 1:1
    In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
  4. Cross References
    Genesis 1:11 - 12
    And God said, "Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth." And it was so.
  5. Cross References
    Genesis 3:23
    Therefore the Lord God sent him out from the garden of Eden to work the ground from which he was taken.
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