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Chapter 2

This is how the heavens and the earth and everything in them were made.

[a]God completed his work on the seventh day and on the seventh day he rested from all of his work.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:2 The model of a week that the Priestly account uses in describing the divine creation is meant to teach that the pattern of days of work followed by rest on the seventh day originates in the will of God himself.