Genesis 2:3

And God blesses the seventh day, and sanctifies it, for in it He has ceased from all His work which God had created for making.

Literal Standard Version

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 God completes by the seventh day His work which He has made, and ceases by the seventh day from all His work which He has made.

4These [are] the generations of the heavens and of the earth in their being created, in the day of YHWH God’s making the earth and the heavens;

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Cross References

Genesis 1:31And God sees all that He has done, and behold, [it is] very good; and there is an evening, and there is a morning—the sixth day.

Exodus 20:8Remember the Sabbath day to sanctify it;

Exodus 31:13“And you, speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Surely you keep My Sabbaths, for it [is] a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, to know that I, YHWH, am sanctifying you;

Exodus 35:2[For] six days work is done, and on the seventh day there is a holy [day] for you, a Sabbath of rest to YHWH; any who does work in it is put to death;

Leviticus 25:2“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: When you come into the land which I am giving to you, then the land has kept a Sabbath to YHWH.

Nehemiah 9:14And Your holy Sabbath You have made known to them, || And commands, and statutes, and law, || You have commanded for them, || By the hand of Your servant Moses;

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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