Genesis 2:3 - Tree of Life Version

³ Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, for on it He ceased from all His work that God created for the purpose of preparing.

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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

So God saw everything that He made, and behold it was very good. So there was evening and there was morning—the sixth day.

Genesis 2:2

God completed—on the seventh day—His work that He made, and He ceased—on the seventh day—from all His work that He made.

Genesis 2:4

These are the genealogical records of the heavens and the earth when they were created, at the time when Adonai Elohim made land and sky.

Nehemiah 9:14

You made known to them Your holy Shabbat and ordained for them mitzvot, statutes and Torah by the hand of Your servant Moses.

Exodus 23:12

“You are to do your work for six days, but on the seventh day you will rest, so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and also the son of your handmaid and the outsider may be refreshed.

Exodus 34:21

“For six days you will work, but on the seventh day you will rest. During plowing time and harvest you must rest.

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of Adonai brings wealth and He adds no trouble with it.

Ezekiel 20:12

I also gave them My Shabbatot, as a sign between Me and them, so that they would know that I am Adonai who made them holy.

Leviticus 23:3

“Work may be done for six days, but the seventh day is a Shabbat of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You are to do no work—it is a Shabbat to Adonai in all your dwellings.

Mark 2:27

Then He said to them, “Shabbat was made for man, and not man for Shabbat.

Luke 23:56

Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. But on Shabbat they rested according to the commandment.