Genesis 2:2 - Forerunner Commentary

Genesis 2:2

1 Thus the heavens and the earth, and ^aall the host of them, were finished.

2 ^aAnd on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

3 Then God ^ablessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

4 ^aThis is the¹ history of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

5 before any ^aplant of the field was in the earth and before any herb of the field had grown. For the Lord God had not ^bcaused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man ^cto till the ground;

6 but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.

7 And the Lord God formed man of the ^adust of the ground, and ^bbreathed into his ^cnostrils the breath of life; and ^dman became a living being.

Life in God’s Garden

8 The Lord God planted ^aa garden ^beastward in ^cEden, and there He put the man whom He had formed.

9 And out of the ground the Lord God made ^aevery tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. ^bThe tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and ^cevil.

10 Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads.

Verse Comparison: Genesis 2:2

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American Standard Version
And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Amplified® Bible
And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

Contemporary English Version
By the seventh day God had finished his work, and so he rested.

Darby English Version
And God had finished on the seventh day his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

Good News Bible
By the seventh day God finished what he had been doing and stopped working.

King James Version
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.

New American Standard Bible
By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

New International Version
By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

New King James Version
And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

Revised Standard Version
And 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.

Young's Literal Translation
and God completeth by the seventh day His work which He hath made, and ceaseth by the seventh day from all His work which He hath made.

New English Translation
By¹ the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing,² and he ceased³ on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.

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