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Genesis 2:3-5
English Standard Version
Genesis 2:3-5
English Standard Version
3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
The Creation of Man and Woman
4 (A)These are the generations
of the heavens and the earth when they were created,
in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
5 When no (B)bush of the field[a] was yet in the land[b] and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man (C)to work the ground,
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- Genesis 2:5 Or open country
- Genesis 2:5 Or earth; also verse 6
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