Genesis 2:3

Holman Christian Standard Bible

God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it He rested from His work of creation.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God saw all that He had made, and it was very good. Evening came and then morning: the sixth day.

Genesis 2:2

By the seventh day God completed His work that He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had done.

Genesis 2:4

These are the records of the heavens and the earth, concerning their creation at the time that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

Nehemiah 9:14

You revealed Your holy Sabbath to them, and gave them commands, statutes, and instruction through Your servant Moses.

Exodus 23:12

“Do your work for six days but rest on the seventh day so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave as well as the foreign resident may be refreshed.

Exodus 34:21

“You are to labor six days but you must rest on the seventh day; you must even rest during plowing and harvesting times.

Proverbs 10:22

The Lord’s blessing enriches, and struggle adds nothing to it.

Ezekiel 20:12

I also gave them My Sabbaths to serve as a sign between Me and them, so they will know that I am Yahweh who sets them apart as holy.

Leviticus 23:3

“Work may be done for six days, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you live.

Mark 2:27

Then He told them, “The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.

Luke 23:56

Then they returned and prepared spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.