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Genesis 2:2-4
The Voice
Genesis 2:2-4
The Voice
2 On the seventh day—with the canvas of the cosmos completed—God paused from His labor and rested. 3 Thus God blessed day seven and made it special—an open time for pause and restoration, a sacred zone of Sabbath-keeping, because God rested from all the work He had done in creation that day.
God’s rest on the seventh day is a model for the kind of Sabbath rest He wants for His people.
4 This is the detailed story of the Eternal God’s singular work in creating all that exists. On the day the heavens and earth were created,
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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.
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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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