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God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all the work of creation.[a] This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created.

World’s creation in the garden

On the day the Lord God made earth and sky— before any wild plants appeared on the earth, and before any field crops grew, because the Lord God hadn’t yet sent rain on the earth and there was still no human being[b] to farm the fertile land,

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 2:3 Or from all his work, which God created to do
  2. Genesis 2:5 Or man (Heb adam)

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