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Genesis 2: 1–3 — The Seventh Day · A Tithe of Time Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to a tithe of time, verse by verse.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we begin reading from the ESV, Genesis 2, 1-3, the seventh day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.
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  SPEAKER_00: So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's look closer.
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  SPEAKER_00: Genesis 2.1 begins by saying, The heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Creation is now complete.
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  SPEAKER_00: Nothing in the passage suggests God stopped because he was tired.
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  SPEAKER_00: The point is that his work was finished.
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  SPEAKER_00: Verse 2 says God rested on the seventh day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here, rest means that he ceased from the work of creation he had been doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: The seventh day is different from the first six because the emphasis is no longer on creating, separating, filling, or forming.
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  SPEAKER_00: The work has reached completion.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then God does something he has not done with any previous day.
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  SPEAKER_00: He blesses the seventh day and makes it holy.
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  SPEAKER_00: To make something holy means to set it apart for a special purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: The seventh day is distinguished from the others because God rested from his work of creation on it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Another detail stands out.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first six days repeatedly end with the phrase, There was evening and there was morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: Genesis 2, 1-3 does not give that same closing formula for the seventh day.
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  SPEAKER_00: The text simply emphasizes completion, rest, blessing, and holiness.
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  SPEAKER_00: This passage closes the opening creation account.
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  SPEAKER_00: Genesis began with an unformed and empty earth, and it now ends creation week with the heavens and the earth finished.
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  SPEAKER_00: This concludes Genesis 2 1 3.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next, we'll move to the Creation Week recap, covering Genesis 1 1 2 3.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remember, tithe your time.