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The seventh day came. Then God stopped the work that he had been doing. He had finished his work and he rested on the seventh day.

God blessed the seventh day. He made it a special day, because he had finished making everything. He did not work on that day.

God makes a man and a woman

This is what happened when God made the heavens and the earth.

When the Lord God made the heavens and the earth,

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By the seventh day(A) God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.(B) Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy,(C) because on it he rested(D) from all the work of creating(E) that he had done.

Adam and Eve

This is the account(F) of the heavens and the earth when they were created,(G) when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

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