Genesis 2:2

New English Translation

By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

God saw all that he had made – and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.

Genesis 2:3

God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.

Exodus 23:12

For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, in order that your ox and your donkey may rest and that your female servant’s son and any hired help may refresh themselves.

Exodus 31:15

Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.

Exodus 31:17

It is a sign between me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’”

Isaiah 58:13

You must observe the Sabbath rather than doing anything you please on my holy day. You must look forward to the Sabbath and treat the Lord’s holy day with respect. You must treat it with respect by refraining from your normal activities, and by refraining from your selfish pursuits and from making business deals.

John 5:17

So he told them, “My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”

Deuteronomy 5:14

but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the foreigner who lives with you, so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have rest.

Hebrews 4:10

For the one who enters God’s rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.

Hebrews 4:4

For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”