Genesis 2:2

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By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing. On the seventh day he stopped the work he had been doing.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

And God saw everything that he had made and that it was very good. There was evening, then morning—the sixth day.

Genesis 2:3

Then God blessed the seventh day and set it apart as holy, because on that day he stopped all his work of creation.

Exodus 23:12

“For six days you will do your work, but on the seventh day you must not work. Then your ox and donkey can rest. The slaves born in your household and foreigners will also be refreshed.

Exodus 31:15

You may work for six days, but the seventh day is a day of rest—a holy day, a day when you don’t work. It is holy to the Lord. Whoever works on that day must be put to death.

Exodus 31:17

It will be a permanent sign between me and the Israelites, because the Lord made heaven and earth in six days, and on the seventh day he stopped working and was refreshed.’ ”

Isaiah 58:13

If you stop trampling on the day of rest and doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the day of rest a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way, by not going out when you want, and by not talking idly,

John 5:17

Jesus replied to them, “My Father is working right now, and so am I.”

Deuteronomy 5:14

The seventh day is the day of rest—a holy day dedicated to the Lord your God. You, your sons, your daughters, your male and female slaves, your oxen, your donkeys—all of your animals—even the foreigners living in your city must never do any work ⌞on that day⌟. In this way your male and female slaves can rest as you do.

Hebrews 4:10

Those who entered his place of rest also rest from their work as God did from his.

Hebrews 4:4

Somewhere in Scripture God has said this about the seventh day: “On the seventh day God rested from all his work.”