Genesis 2:3

And God blessed the seuenth daye, & sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his worke whiche God ordeyned to make.

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In The King James Version

And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

In Context

2And in the seuenth day God ended his worke whiche he had made. And the seueth day he rested from all his worke which he had made.

4These are the generations of the heauens and of the earth when they were created, in the day when the Lord God made the earth and the heauens.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:31And God sawe euery thyng that he had made: and beholde, it was exceedyng good. And the euenyng & the mornyng were the sixth day.

Matthew Henry on Genesis 2:2-4

The Creation. ( b. c. 4004.) 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made. We have here, I. The settlement of the kingdom of nature, in God's resting from the work of creation, v. 1, 2 . Here observe, 1. The creatures made… Read the whole commentary →

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