3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished. 4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them. 5 Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
Genesis 2:3–5
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