Genesis 2:3 - Plain English Version

³ So God made day number 7 a good and special day. He said, “I’ve finished making everything now, and I’m resting on day number 7. So day number 7 is a special day.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And God blessed (spoke good of) the seventh day, set it apart as His own, and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all His work which He had created and done. [Exod. 20:11.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

Common English Bible

³ God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all the work of creation.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And he blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. For in it, he had ceased from all his work: the work whereby God created whatever he should make.

Genesis 2:3 Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God looked at everything he made, and he saw that all of it was very good. After that all happened, there was night time and there was morning time. That was day number 6.

Genesis 2:2

After God finished all that, it was day number 7, and God rested on that day.

Genesis 2:4

This story is about the time when God made the earth and the sky.

Mark 2:27

Then Jesus said to them, “Listen to me now. God gave us the rest day to help us, not just to give us another law to follow.