Hi Atlas!

The wording in Exodus 20:11 is very important in the King James Bible.
(The beauty is in the details!)

Our King James Bible is AMAZING in its accuracy and its ABSOLUTELY CORRECT use of words.

Going back to Genesis 1:1 we find something astounding.
Check it out -

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. 1:1

In Genesis 1:1, God says that he created the heaven and the earth.

God does not use the word "created" again until we get to the WHALES in Genesis 1:21. [The whale must have been created for some special purpose, eh? (Jonah?!) ]


Instead, we see the word "made" used -

"...God made the firmament..."
"...God made two great lights..."
"...he made the stars also..."

To MAKE something is to form something out of already existing matter.
To CREATE something is to cause something into being out of nothing.



Look at what we find when we get to man -

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Gen 1:26,27

We find that God both MADE man (God formed man out of the dust of the earth) and CREATED man (God breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.)

Now look at the incredibly accurate wording of Exodus 20:11 in our King James Bible -

For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
Exodus 20:11

Exodus 20:11 does NOT match Genesis 1:1.
It matches Genesis 1:3-31