Genesis 2:2

Good News Translation

By the seventh day God finished what he had been doing and stopped working.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God looked at everything he had made, and he was very pleased. Evening passed and morning came—that was the sixth day.

Genesis 2:3

He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working.

Exodus 23:12

“Work six days a week, but do no work on the seventh day, so that your slaves and the foreigners who work for you and even your animals can rest.

Exodus 31:15

You have six days in which to do your work, but the seventh day is a solemn day of rest dedicated to me. Whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death.

Exodus 31:17

It is a permanent sign between the people of Israel and me, because I, the Lord, made heaven and earth in six days, and on the seventh day I stopped working and rested.”

Isaiah 58:13

The Lord says, “If you treat the Sabbath as sacred and do not pursue your own interests on that day; if you value my holy day and honor it by not traveling, working, or talking idly on that day,

John 5:17

Jesus answered them, “My Father is always working, and I too must work.”

Deuteronomy 5:14

but the seventh day is a day of rest dedicated to me. On that day no one is to work—neither you, your children, your slaves, your animals, nor the foreigners who live in your country. Your slaves must rest just as you do.

Hebrews 4:10

For those who receive that rest which God promised will rest from their own work, just as God rested from his.

Hebrews 4:4

For somewhere in the Scriptures this is said about the seventh day: “God rested on the seventh day from all his work.”