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Genesis 2:2-4
Good News Translation
Genesis 2:2-4
Good News Translation
2 (A)By the seventh day God finished what he had been doing and stopped working. 3 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. 4 And that is how the universe was created.
The Garden of Eden
When the Lord[b] God made the universe,
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- Genesis 2:3 by that day he had completed his creation; or on that day he completed his creation.
- 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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