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.


In Context

1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.

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

4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens.

5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.

Genesis 2:3 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:3And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

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 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.