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Genesis 2:3

God made day 7 a special day. That means it was different from all the other days. God said, “I have finished making everything now, and that is why I am resting from my work.”

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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

2He made everything in 6 days, and on day 7, God rested and he stopped making things.

4This story is about what happened after the Lord God made the earth and the sky.

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Cross References

Genesis 1:31God looked at all the things he made, and he saw that they were really good. Night time came. That was the end of day 6.

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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