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By the seventh day God finished what he had been doing and stopped working. 1
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He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working.
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And that is how the universe was created. When the Lord God made the universe,
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there were no plants on the earth and no seeds had sprouted, because he had not sent any rain, and there was no one to cultivate the land;
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but water would come up from beneath the surface and water the ground.
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Then the Lord God took some soil from the ground and formed a man out of it; he breathed life-giving breath into his nostrils and the man began to live. 2
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Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the East, and there he put the man he had formed.
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by that day he had completed his creation; [or] on that day he completed his creation.
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the lord: [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.]
[c].
ground . . . man: [The Hebrew words for "man" and "ground" have similar sounds.]
[d].
ground . . . man: [The Hebrew words for "man" and "ground" have similar sounds.]
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.