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Genesis 2:2-4
Good News Translation
Genesis 2:2-4
Good News Translation
2 (A)By the seventh day God finished what he had been doing and stopped working. 3 He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation[a] and stopped working. 4 And that is how the universe was created.
The Garden of Eden
When the Lord[b] God made the universe,
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- Genesis 2:3 by that day he had completed his creation; or on that day he completed his creation.
- Genesis 2:4 Where the Hebrew text has Yahweh, traditionally transliterated as Jehovah, this translation employs Lord with capital letters, following a usage which is widespread in English versions.
Genesis 2:2-4
New International Version
Genesis 2:2-4
New International Version
2 By the seventh day(A) God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.(B) 3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,(C) because on it he rested(D) from all the work of creating(E) that he had done.
Adam and Eve
4 This is the account(F) of the heavens and the earth when they were created,(G) when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
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