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Genesis 2:3
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.
Genesis 2:3 · American Standard Version
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Genesis 2:3 in other translations
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.
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.
God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
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In context
1 And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
2 And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
3 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.
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.
5 And no plant of the field was yet in the earth, and no herb of the field had yet sprung up; for Jehovah God had not caused it to rain upon the earth: and there was not a man to till the ground;
6 but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground.
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