Genesis 2:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ And Elohim blessed the seventh day and set it apart, because on it He rested from all His work which Elohim in creating had made.

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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

And Elohim saw all that He had made, and see, it was very good. And there came to be evening and there came to be morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 2:2

And on the seventh day Elohim completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.

Genesis 2:4

These are the births of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that יהוה  Elohim made earth and heavens.

Nehemiah 9:14

“And You made known to them Your set-apart Sabbath, and You commanded them commands and laws and Torot , by the hand of Mosheh Your servant.

Exodus 23:12

“Six days you are to do your work, and on the seventh day you rest, in order that your ox and your donkey might rest, and the son of your female servant and the sojourner be refreshed.

Exodus 34:21

“Six days you work, but on the seventh day you rest – in ploughing time and in harvest you rest.

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of יהוה  makes one rich, And He adds no pain with it.

Ezekiel 20:12

“And I also gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between them and Me, to know that I am יהוה  who sets them apart.

Leviticus 23:3

‘Six days work is done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a set-apart gathering. You do no work, it is a Sabbath to יהוה  in all your dwellings.

Mark 2:27

And He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.

Luke 23:56

And having returned, they prepared spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the command.