Footnotes

1. Genesis 2:1 tn See the note on the phrase “the heavens and the earth” in 1:1.
2. Genesis 2:1 tn Heb “and all the host of them.” Here the “host” refers to all the entities and creatures that God created to populate the world.
3. Genesis 2:2 tn Heb “on/in the seventh day.”
4. Genesis 2:2 tn Heb “his work which he did [or “made”].”
5. Genesis 2:2 tn The Hebrew term שָׁבַּת (shabbat) can be translated “to rest” (“and he rested”) but it basically means “to cease.” This is not a rest from exhaustion; it is the cessation of the work of creation.