Holy Scripture

Genesis 2:1

A church father on this verse
“From what toil did God rest? For the creatures that came to be on the first day came to be by implication, except for the light, which came through his word. And the rest of the works that came to be afterward came to be through his word. What toil is there for us when we speak one word? So what toil could there have…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 1.32-33

Source: Septuagint

Original

1And the heavens and the earth were finished, and the whole world of them.

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In context

— Genesis 2:1 —

2And God finished on the sixth day his works which he made, and he ceased on the seventh day from all his works which he made.

3And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it he ceased from all his works which God began to do.

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