Holy Scripture

Genesis 2:5

A church father on this verse
“Understand, O hearer, that although the days of creation were finished and God had blessed the sabbath day, which was sanctified, and he had completed his account, Moses still returned to tell the story of the beginning of creation even after the days of creation had been finished. "These are the generations of the he…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON GENESIS 2.2.1-2.3.1

Source: Septuagint

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

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,

— Genesis 2:5 —

6But there rose a fountain out of the earth, and watered the whole face of the earth.

7And God formed the man of dust of the earth, and breathed upon his face the breath of life, and the man became a living soul.

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