The Garden of Eden

2 Thus the heavens and the earth, and ^(A)all the host of them, were finished.

¹⁷ It is ^(A)a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for ^(B)in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’ ”

¹⁵ Then Hezekiah prayed before the Lord, and said: “O Lord God of Israel, the One ^(A)who dwells between the cherubim, ^(B)You are God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.

The History of Creation^(A)

1 In the ^(B)beginning ^(C)God created the heavens and the earth.

³ For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said:

although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

The Coming Deliverance of Judah

12 The ^[a]burden of the word of the Lord against Israel. Thus says the Lord, ^(A)who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and ^(B)forms the spirit of man within him: