Genesis 2:3

God blesses and sanctifies the seventh day as holy. He sets apart a day for rest, rooting the Sabbath in creation itself.

Cross-references · 19

• Lev 23:3“‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
• Mark 2:27He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
• Ezek 20:12Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
• Exod 31:13–17“Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
• Luke 23:56They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
• Exod 35:2–3‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.
• Exod 34:21“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
• Jer 17:21–27Yahweh says, “Be careful, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
• Isa 58:13–14“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words:
• Lev 25:2–3“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh.
• Neh 9:14and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,
• Isa 56:2–7Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
• Exod 20:8–11“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
• Exod 23:12“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed.
• Deut 5:12–14“Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.
• Exod 16:22–30On the sixth day, they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for each one, and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.
• Heb 4:4–10For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works”;
• Neh 13:15–22In those days saw I in Judah some men treading wine presses on the Sabbath, bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys; also with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; and I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.
• Prov 10:22Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

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