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.
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Gill's Exposition
And on the seventh day God ended his work, which he had made,.... Not that God wrought anything on the seventh day, or finished any part of his work on that day, because he could not then be said to…
- The Seventh Day 1. צבא tsābā' “a host in marching order,” a company of persons or things in the order of their nature and the progressive discharge of their functions. Hence, it is applied to the…
Adam Clarke
On the Seventh day God ended, etc. - It is the general voice of Scripture that God finished the whole of the creation in six days, and rested the seventh! giving us an example that we might labor six…
We have here, I. The settlement of the kingdom of nature, in God's resting from the work of creation, Gen 2:1, Gen 2:2. Here observe, 1. The creatures made both in heaven and earth are the hosts or…
Cambridge Bible
on the seventh day Some misunderstanding arose in very early times in consequence of these words. Jealous for the sanctity of the Sabbath, men said, "No, not on the seventh day, but on the sixth day,…
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