Holy Scripture

Genesis 2:3

A church father on this verse
“Just as the trees, the vegetation, the animals, the birds and even humankind were old, so also were they young. They were old according to the appearance of their limbs and their substances, yet they were young because of the hour and moment of their creation. Likewise, the moon was both old and young. It was young, f…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 1.24.1

Source: Septuagint

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

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.

— Genesis 2:3 —

4This is the book of the generation of heaven and earth, when they were made, in the day in which the Lord God made the heaven and the earth,

5and every herb of the field before it was on the earth, and all the grass of the field before it sprang up, for God had not rained on the earth, and there was not a man to cultivate it.

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