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On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.

This is the history of the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Yahweh[a] God made the earth and the heavens.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:4 “Yahweh” is God’s proper Name, sometimes rendered “LORD” (all caps) in other translations.

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) 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

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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