Genesis 2:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

³ So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Genesis 2:3 Cross References

Genesis 1:31

And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

Genesis 2:2

And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

Genesis 2:4

These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

Nehemiah 9:14

and thou didst make known to them thy holy sabbath and command them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses thy servant.

Exodus 23:12

“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your ass may have rest, and the son of your bondmaid, and the alien, may be refreshed.

Exodus 34:21

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

Ezekiel 20:12

Moreover I gave them my sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I the Lord sanctify them.

Leviticus 23:3

Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no work; it is a sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.

Mark 2:27

And he said to them, “The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath;

Luke 23:56

then they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.