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Genesis 2:3

And he is kneeling/blessing elohim אֶת-a day of the Seventh,56 and is making holy אֶת-him, for in-him57 he has ceased from the whole of his angelic-task whom elohim has cut out to make:58


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cut-out to make. The Hebrew uses the infinitive verb form “to make.” This stumps many translators. Charles Ellicott’s Commentary says, “Literally, cut out to make.” Elohim cut out the Dual-Heavens and Earth in order to make them. Elohim begins his work at sunrise and ends it at sunset. In John 9:4 “It is necessary for us to work the works of the one who sent me until it is Hot-one. Night is coming when no one is able to work.”