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The Seventh Day

With this, the universe[a] was[b] completed, including all of its vast array.[c] By the seventh day, God had completed the work he had been doing, so on the seventh day he stopped working on[d] everything that he had done.

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:1 Lit. the heavens and the earth; i.e. space and matter
  2. Genesis 2:1 Lit. were
  3. Genesis 2:1 Lit. of their hosts; i.e. armies of sentient beings (or stars, if referring to the night sky)
  4. Genesis 2:2 Or he rested from

Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.(A)

By the seventh day(B) God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.(C)

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Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

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.

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