Genesis 2:3

New International Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

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

Genesis 2:2

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

Genesis 2:4

This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.

Nehemiah 9:14

You made known to them your holy Sabbath and gave them commands, decrees and laws through your servant Moses.

Exodus 23:12

“Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.

Exodus 34:21

“Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the Lord brings wealth, without painful toil for it.

Ezekiel 20:12

Also I gave them my Sabbaths as a sign between us, so they would know that I the Lord made them holy.

Leviticus 23:3

“ ‘There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the Lord.

Mark 2:27

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

Luke 23:56

Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment.