Genesis 2:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation.

Cross References

Genesis 1:31

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

Genesis 2:2

On the sixth day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done.

Genesis 2:4

These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created. In the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

Nehemiah 9:14

and you made known your holy Sabbath to them and gave them commandments and statutes and a law through Moses your servant.

Exodus 23:12

“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest so that your ox and your donkey may have relief and your homeborn slave and the resident alien may be refreshed.

Exodus 34:21

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in plowing time and in harvest time you shall rest.

Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the Lord makes rich, and toil adds nothing to it.

Ezekiel 20:12

Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, so that they might know that I the Lord sanctify them.

Leviticus 23:3

“Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord throughout your settlements.

Mark 2:27

Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for humankind and not humankind for the Sabbath,

Luke 23:56

Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.