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Genesis 2:3-5
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Genesis 2:3-5
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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, 5 there were no plants or vegetation to cover the earth. The fields were barren and empty, because the Eternal God had not sent the rains to nourish the soil or anyone to tend it.
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Genesis 2:3-5
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Genesis 2:3-5
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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.
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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,
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- Genesis 2:5 Or land; also in verse 6
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