3And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.


In Context

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.

2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created. When the Lord God made the earth and the heavens-

5 and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to work the ground,

Genesis 2:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:3And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:3And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:3And 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:3And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it: because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:3God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:3And God blesseth the seventh day, and sanctifieth it, for in it He hath ceased from all His work which God had prepared for making.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.