Genesis 2:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.

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  • Gen 1:4 : 4 And God, looking on the light, saw that it was good: and God made a division between the light and the dark,
  • Gen 1:28 : 28 And God gave them his blessing and said to them, Be fertile and have increase, and make the earth full and be masters of it; be rulers over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing moving on the earth.
  • Gen 1:31 : 31 And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.
  • Gen 5:1 : 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;
  • Gen 10:1 : 1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: these are the sons which they had after the great flow of waters
  • Gen 11:10 : 10 These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;
  • Gen 25:12 : 12 Now these are the generations of Ishmael, the son of Abraham, whose mother was Hagar the Egyptian, the servant of Sarah:
  • Gen 25:19 : 19 Now these are the generations of Abraham's son Isaac:
  • Gen 36:1 : 1 Now these are the generations of Esau, that is to say, Edom.
  • Gen 36:9 : 9 And these are the generations of Esau, the father of the Edomites in the hill-country of Seir:
  • Exod 6:16 : 16 And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.
  • Exod 15:3 : 3 The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is his name.
  • 1 Kgs 18:39 : 39 And when the people saw it, they all went down on their faces, and said, The Lord, he is God, the Lord, he is God.
  • 2 Chr 20:6 : 6 And said, O Lord, the God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven? are you not ruler over all the kingdoms of the nations? and in your hands are power and strength so that no one is able to keep his place against you.
  • Job 38:28 : 28 Has the rain a father? or who gave birth to the drops of night mist?
  • Ps 18:31 : 31 For who is God but the Lord? or who is a Rock but our God?
  • Rev 1:8 : 8 I am the First and the Last, says the Lord God who is and was and is to come, the Ruler of all.
  • Gen 1:1 : 1 At the first God made the heaven and the earth.
  • Rev 11:17 : 17 We give you praise, O Lord God, Ruler of all, who is and who was; because you have taken up your great power and are ruling your kingdom.
  • Rev 16:5 : 5 And the voice of the angel of the waters came to my ears, saying, True and upright is your judging, O Holy One, who is and was from all time:
  • Ps 86:10 : 10 For you are great, and do great works of wonder; you only are God.
  • Ps 90:1-2 : 1 <A Prayer of Moses, the man of God.> Lord, you have been our resting-place in all generations. 2 Before the mountains were made, before you had given birth to the earth and the world, before time was, and for ever, you are God.
  • Isa 44:6 : 6 The Lord, the King of Israel, even the Lord of armies who has taken up his cause, says, I am the first and the last, and there is no God but me.
  • Rev 1:4 : 4 John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is and was and is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his high seat;

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  • Gen 1:5-19
    15 verses
    80%

    5Naming the light, Day, and the dark, Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

    6And God said, Let there be a solid arch stretching over the waters, parting the waters from the waters.

    7And God made the arch for a division between the waters which were under the arch and those which were over it: and it was so.

    8And God gave the arch the name of Heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, the second day.

    9And God said, Let the waters under the heaven come together in one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was so.

    10And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.

    11And God said, Let grass come up on the earth, and plants producing seed, and fruit-trees giving fruit, in which is their seed, after their sort: and it was so.

    12And grass came up on the earth, and every plant producing seed of its sort, and every tree producing fruit, in which is its seed, of its sort: and God saw that it was good.

    13And there was evening and there was morning, the third day.

    14And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:

    15And let them be for lights in the arch of heaven to give light on the earth: and it was so.

    16And God made the two great lights: the greater light to be the ruler of the day, and the smaller light to be the ruler of the night: and he made the stars.

    17And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;

    18To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.

    19And there was evening and there was morning, the fourth day.

  • Gen 2:1-3
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    79%

    1And the heaven and the earth and all things in them were complete.

    2And on the seventh day God came to the end of all his work; and on the seventh day he took his rest from all the work which he had done.

    3And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.

  • Gen 1:1-2
    2 verses
    79%

    1At the first God made the heaven and the earth.

    2And the earth was waste and without form; and it was dark on the face of the deep: and the Spirit of God was moving on the face of the waters.

  • Gen 2:5-9
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    5In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

    6But a mist went up from the earth, watering all the face of the land.

    7And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.

    8And the Lord God made a garden in the east, in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had made.

    9And out of the earth the Lord made every tree to come, delighting the eye and good for food; and in the middle of the garden, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

  • Gen 5:1-2
    2 verses
    77%

    1This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God made man, he made him in the image of God;

    2Male and female he made them, naming them Man, and giving them his blessing on the day when they were made.

  • Exod 20:11
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    11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this reason the Lord has given his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy.

  • Gen 1:26-27
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    74%

    26And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.

    27And God made man in his image, in the image of God he made him: male and female he made them.

  • Ps 33:6
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    6By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the army of heaven by the breath of his mouth.

  • Prov 8:26
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    26When he had not made the earth or the fields or the dust of the world.

  • 2 Pet 3:5
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    5But in taking this view they put out of their minds the memory that in the old days there was a heaven, and an earth lifted out of the water and circled by water, by the word of God;

  • Heb 1:10
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    10You, Lord, at the first did put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the works of your hands:

  • Gen 2:15
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    15And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.

  • Gen 1:22-23
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    72%

    22And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

    23And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

  • Gen 2:19
    72%

    19And from the earth the Lord God made every beast of the field and every bird of the air, and took them to the man to see what names he would give them: and whatever name he gave to any living thing, that was its name.

  • Jer 4:23
    72%

    23Looking at the earth, I saw that it was waste and without form; and to the heavens, that they had no light.

  • Ps 102:25
    72%

    25In the past you put the earth on its base, and the heavens are the work of your hands.

  • Jer 10:12
    71%

    12He has made the earth by his power, he has made the world strong in its place by his wisdom, and by his wise design the heavens have been stretched out.

  • Prov 3:19
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    19The Lord by wisdom put in position the bases of the earth; by reason he put the heavens in their place.

  • Gen 1:31
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    31And God saw everything which he had made and it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day.

  • Gen 6:4
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    4There were men of great strength and size on the earth in those days; and after that, when the sons of God had connection with the daughters of men, they gave birth to children: these were the great men of old days, the men of great name.

  • Gen 8:22
    70%

    22While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.

  • Gen 6:1
    70%

    1And after a time, when men were increasing on the earth, and had daughters,

  • Ps 19:1
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    1<To the chief music-maker. A Psalm. Of David.> The heavens are sounding the glory of God; the arch of the sky makes clear the work of his hands.