Genesis 2:3

God blessed the seventh day and set it apart, for in it he rested from all the creative work which he had done.

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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

2When on the seventh day God finished the work which he had done, he rested that day from all his work.

4This is the story of the heavens and earth when they were created. At the time when the Lord God made earth and heaven,

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Cross References

Genesis 1:31When God saw all that he had made, he perceived that it was very good. There was an evening and a morning, making 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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