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By the seventh day(A) God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.(B)

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And by the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested (ceased) on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.(A)

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On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so he rested[a] from all his work.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:2 Or ceased; also in 2:3.

2-4 By the seventh day
    God had finished his work.
On the seventh day
    he rested from all his work.
God blessed the seventh day.
    He made it a Holy Day
Because on that day he rested from his work,
    all the creating God had done.

This is the story of how it all started,
    of Heaven and Earth when they were created.

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And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

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