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CHAPTER EXPLORER

Genesis 2

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25 verses in KJV · 295 outgoing cross-reference links

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Opening verses of Genesis 2 (KJV)

2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

2:2 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.

2:3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

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Historical / attribution context

Traditional writer attribution: Moses

Approximate study chronology: c. 4004 BC

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