Text -- Genesis 2:1-2 (NET)

2:1 The heavens and the earth were completed with everything that was in them. 2:2 By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Gen 2:1

¹ tn See the note on the phrase “the heavens and the earth” in 1:1.

² tn Heb “and all the host of them.” Here the “host” refers to all the entities and creatures that God created to populate the world.

NET Notes: Gen 2:2

¹ tn Heb “on/in the seventh day.”

² tn Heb “his work which he did [or “made”].”

³ tn The Hebrew term שָׁבַּת (shabbat) can be translated “to rest” (“and he rested”) but it basically means “to cease.” This is not a rest from exhaustion; it is the cessation of the work of creation.