Genesis 2:2

New Century Version

By the seventh day God finished the work he had been doing, so he rested from all his work.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God looked at everything he had made, and it was very good. Evening passed, and morning came. This was the sixth day.

Genesis 2:3

God blessed the seventh day and made it a holy day, because on that day he rested from all the work he had done in creating the world.

Exodus 23:12

“You should work six days a week, but on the seventh day you must rest. This lets your ox and your donkey rest, and it also lets the slave born in your house and the foreigner be refreshed.

Exodus 31:15

There are six days for working, but the seventh day is a day of rest, a day holy for the Lord. Anyone who works during the Sabbath day must be put to death.

Exodus 31:17

The Sabbath day will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, because in six days I, the Lord, made the sky and the earth. On the seventh day I did not work; I rested.’ ”

Isaiah 58:13

“You must obey God’s law about the Sabbath and not do what pleases yourselves on that holy day. You should call the Sabbath a joyful day and honor it as the Lord’s holy day. You should honor it by not doing whatever you please nor saying whatever you please on that day.

John 5:17

But Jesus said to them, “My Father never stops working, and so I keep working, too.”

Deuteronomy 5:14

but the seventh day is a day of rest to honor the Lord your God. On that day no one may do any work: not you, your son or daughter, your male or female slaves, your ox, your donkey, or any of your animals, or the foreigners living in your cities. That way your servants may rest as you do.

Hebrews 4:10

Anyone who enters God’s rest will rest from his work as God did.

Hebrews 4:4

In the Scriptures he talked about the seventh day of the week: “And on the seventh day God rested from all his works.”