The Creation Of The Sabbath

Bereshit Rabbah 11:9

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Rabbi Levi said in the name of Rabbi Hama bar Hanina: Three creations the Holy One, blessed be He, would create on each and every day. On the first day He created heaven and earth and light; on the second, the firmament and Gehinnom and angels; on the third, trees and grasses and the Garden of Eden; on the fourth, the sun and the moon and the constellations; on the fifth, birds and fish and Leviathan; on the sixth, Adam and Eve and creeping things. Rabbi Pinhas said: On the sixth He created six: Adam and Eve and creeping thing, and domesticated animal and wild animal and fatted beasts. Rabbi Banaya said: It is not written here "which God created and made," but rather "which God created to make" (Genesis 2:3). All that the Holy One, blessed be He, was destined to create on the seventh day, He anticipated and created on the sixth.

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