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Selected Verse: Genesis 2:2 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ge 2:2 |
Strong Concordance |
And on the seventh [07637] day [03117] God [0430] ended [03615] his work [04399] which he had made [06213]; and he rested [07673] on the seventh [07637] day [03117] from all his work [04399] which he had made [06213]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
THE FIRST SABBATH. (Gen 2:2-7)
and he rested on the seventh day--not to repose from exhaustion with labor (see Isa 40:28), but ceased from working, an example equivalent to a command that we also should cease from labor of every kind. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| On the Seventh day God ended, etc. - It is the general voice of Scripture that God finished the whole of the creation in six days, and rested the seventh! giving us an example that we might labor six days, and rest the seventh from all manual exercises. It is worthy of notice that the Septuagint, the Syriac, and the Samaritan, read the sixth day instead of the seventh; and this should be considered the genuine reading, which appears from these versions to have been originally that of the Hebrew text. How the word sixth became changed into seventh may be easily conceived from this circumstance. It is very likely that in ancient times all the numerals were signified by letters, and not by words at full length. This is the case in the most ancient Greek and Latin MSS., and in almost all the rabbinical writings. When these numeral letters became changed for words at full length, two letters nearly similar might be mistaken for each other; ו vau stands for six, ז zain for seven; how easy to mistake these letters for each other when writing the words at full length, and so give birth to the reading in question. |
28 Hast thou not known [03045]? hast thou not heard [08085], that the everlasting [05769] God [0430], the LORD [03068], the Creator [01254] of the ends [07098] of the earth [0776], fainteth [03286] not, neither is weary [03021]? there is no searching [02714] of his understanding [08394].
2 And on the seventh [07637] day [03117] God [0430] ended [03615] his work [04399] which he had made [06213]; and he rested [07673] on the seventh [07637] day [03117] from all his work [04399] which he had made [06213].
3 And God [0430] blessed [01288] the seventh [07637] day [03117], and sanctified [06942] it: because [03588] that in it he had rested [07673] from all his work [04399] which God [0430] created [01254] and made [06213].
4 These [0428] are the generations [08435] of the heavens [08064] and of the earth [0776] when they were created [01254], in the day [03117] that the LORD [03068] God [0430] made [06213] the earth [0776] and the heavens [08064],
5 And every plant [07880] of the field [07704] before [02962] it was in the earth [0776], and every herb [06212] of the field [07704] before [02962] it grew [06779]: for [03588] the LORD [03068] God [0430] had not [03808] caused it to rain [04305] upon the earth [0776], and there was not [0369] a man [0120] to till [05647] the ground [0127].
6 But there went up [05927] a mist [0108] from [04480] the earth [0776], and watered [08248] the whole face [06440] of the ground [0127].
7 And the LORD [03068] God [0430] formed [03335] man [0120] of the dust [06083] of [04480] the ground [0127], and breathed [05301] into his nostrils [0639] the breath [05397] of life [02416]; and man [0120] became a living [02416] soul [05315].