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1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
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Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
2 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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By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
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Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
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This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
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Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground,
6 But there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
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but streams came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
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Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.
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Now the LORD God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man he had formed.
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