1. Thus the heavens and the earth and all their array were completed.
2. 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.
3. God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work he had done in creation.
4. This is the story of the heavens and the earth at their creation. When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens—
5. there was no field shrub on earth and no grass of the field had sprouted, for the Lord God had sent no rain upon the earth and there was no man to till the ground,
6. but a stream was welling up out of the earth and watering all the surface of the ground—