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(A)By the seventh day God finished what he had been doing and stopped working. He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation[a] and stopped working. And that is how the universe was created.

The Garden of Eden

When the Lord[b] God made the universe,

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:3 by that day he had completed his creation; or on that day he completed his creation.
  2. Genesis 2:4 Where the Hebrew text has Yahweh, traditionally transliterated as Jehovah, this translation employs Lord with capital letters, following a usage which is widespread in English versions.

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