Genesis 2:3
“And God blessed the seuenth day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his worke, which God created and made.”
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Genesis 2:3 Context
1Thus the heauens and the earth were finished, and all the hoste of them. 2And on the seuenth day God ended his worke, which hee had made: And he rested on the seuenth day from all his worke, which he had made. 3And God blessed the seuenth day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his worke, which God created and made. 4¶ These are the generations of the heauens, & of the earth, when they were created; in the day that the LORD God made the earth, and the heauens, 5And euery plant of the field, before it was in the earth, and euery herbe of the field, before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to raine vpon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
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And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
- King James Version
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.
- American Standard Version (1901)
And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.
- Basic English Bible
And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it, because that on it he rested from all his work which God had created in making it.
- Darby Bible
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
- Webster's Bible
God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
- World English Bible
And God blesseth the seventh day, and sanctifieth it, for in it He hath ceased from all His work which God had prepared for making.
- Youngs Literal Bible
And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it He rested from all His work which God in creating had made.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible