Bible verse
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.
Genesis 2:3 · BSB
The verses around it, from Genesis 2.
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
2 And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
3 Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.
4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made them.
5 Now no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth, nor had any plant of the field sprouted; for the LORD God had not yet sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.
6 But springs welled up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
7 Then the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into his nostrils, and the man became a living being.
KJV
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.
ASV
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.
ERV
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.
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