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Genesis 2:3 (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.”

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Genesis 2 — surrounding verses

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 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.

7

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

8

And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed.

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