Genesis 2:3

New American Bible - revised edition

God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work he had done in creation. The Garden of Eden.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God looked at everything he had made, and found it very good. Evening came, and morning followed—the sixth day.

Genesis 2:2

On the seventh day God completed the work he had been doing; he rested on the seventh day from all the work he had undertaken.

Genesis 2:4

This is the story of the heavens and the earth at their creation. When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens—

Nehemiah 9:14

Your holy sabbath you made known to them, commandments, statutes, and law you prescribed for them, by the hand of Moses your servant.

Exodus 23:12

For six days you may do your work, but on the seventh day you must rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and that the son of your maidservant and the resident alien may be refreshed.

Exodus 34:21

Six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the seasons of plowing and harvesting you must rest.

Proverbs 10:22

It is the Lord’s blessing that brings wealth, and no effort can substitute for it.

Ezekiel 20:12

I also gave them my sabbaths to be a sign between me and them, to show that it is I, the Lord, who makes them holy.

Leviticus 23:3

For six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a sabbath of complete rest, a declared holy day; you shall do no work. It is the Lord’s sabbath wherever you dwell. Passover.

Mark 2:27

Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.

Luke 23:56

they returned and prepared spices and perfumed oils. Then they rested on the sabbath according to the commandment.