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[a]On the seventh day God completed the work he had been doing; he rested on the seventh day from all the work he had undertaken.(A)

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  1. 2:2 The mention of the seventh day, repeated in v. 3, is outside the series of six days and is thus the climax of the account. The focus of the account is God. The text does not actually institute the practice of keeping the Sabbath, for it would have been anachronistic to establish at this point a custom that was distinctively Israelite (Ex 31:13, 16, 17), but it lays the foundation for the later practice. Similarly, ancient creation accounts often ended with the construction of a temple where the newly created human race provided service to the gods who created them, but no temple is mentioned in this account. As was the case with the Sabbath, it would have been anachronistic to institute the temple at this point, for Israel did not yet exist. In Ex 25–31 and 35–40, Israel builds the tabernacle, which is the precursor of the Temple of Solomon.

The descendants of Ham: Cush,[a] Mizraim, Put and Canaan.

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  1. 10:6 Cush: biblical Ethiopia, modern Nubia. Mizraim: Lower (i.e., northern) Egypt; Put: either Punt in East Africa or Libya.

22 (A)The descendants of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud and Aram.

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19 I will place a sign among them; from them I will send survivors to the nations: to Tarshish, Put and Lud, Mosoch, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands which have never heard of my fame, or seen my glory; and they shall proclaim my glory among the nations.

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Ethiopia, Put, and Lud,
    all the mixed rabble[a] and Kub,
and the people of allied lands
    shall fall by the sword with them.

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  1. 30:5 Mixed rabble: mercenaries.