Genesis 2:4
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
KJV
Istæ sunt generationes cæli et terræ, quando creata sunt, in die quo fecit Dominus Deus cælum et terram,
Vulgate
Αὕτη ἡ βίβλος γενέσεως οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς, ὅτε ἐγένετο· ᾗ ἡμέρᾳ ἐποίησεν Κύριος ὁ θεὸς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν,
LXX
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.
ASV
אֵ֣לֶּה תוֹלְד֧וֹת הַ/שָּׁמַ֛יִם וְ/הָ/אָ֖רֶץ בְּ/הִבָּֽרְאָ֑/ם בְּ/י֗וֹם עֲשׂ֛וֹת יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהִ֖ים אֶ֥רֶץ וְ/שָׁמָֽיִם
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
2. But what is this vestibule? The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, Son of David, Son of Abraham. What do you say? Did you not promise to discourse of the Only-begotten Son of God, and do you make mention of David, a man born after a thousand generations, and say that he is both father and ancestor? Stay, seek not to learn all at once, but gently and little by little. Wh…
Cross-references
- 2Kgs 19:15 — And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said, O LORD God of Israel, which dwellest between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth; thou hast made heaven an
- Exod 15:3 — The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.
- Gen 1:1 — In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
- Gen 1:4 — And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
- Gen 1:31 — And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
- Gen 2:1 — Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
- Gen 5:1 — This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
- Gen 5:1 — This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made he him;
- Gen 6:9 — These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
- Gen 10:1 — Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
- Gen 36:1 — Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.
- Rev 1:8 — I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.