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Genesis 2:3-5
International Children’s Bible
Genesis 2:3-5
International Children’s Bible
3 God blessed the seventh day and made it a holy day. He made it holy because on that day he rested. He rested from all the work he had done in creating the world.
The First People
4 This is the story of the creation of the sky and the earth. When the Lord God made the earth and the sky, 5 there were no plants on the earth. Nothing was growing in the fields. The Lord God had not yet made it rain on the land. And there was no man to care for the ground.
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Genesis 2:3-5
New International Version
Genesis 2:3-5
New International Version
3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,(A) because on it he rested(B) from all the work of creating(C) that he had done.
Adam and Eve
4 This is the account(D) of the heavens and the earth when they were created,(E) when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up,(F) for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth(G) and there was no one to work the ground,
Footnotes
- Genesis 2:5 Or land; also in verse 6
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