Genesis 2:3
Modern Translations
New International Version
Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

New Living Translation
And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested from all his work of creation.

English Standard Version
So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

Berean Study Bible
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.

New American Standard Bible
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

NASB 1995
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

NASB 1977
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

Amplified Bible
So God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it [as His own, that is, set it apart as holy from other days], because in it He rested from all His work which He had created and done.

Christian Standard Bible
God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it he rested from all his work of creation.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, for on it He rested from His work of creation.

Contemporary English Version
God blessed the seventh day and made it special, because on that day he rested from his work.

Good News Translation
He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Then God blessed the seventh day and set it apart as holy, because on that day he stopped all his work of creation.

International Standard Version
Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God stopped working on everything that he had been creating.

NET Bible
God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
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.

New King James Version
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

King James 2000 Bible
And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

New Heart English Bible
So God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested on it from all his works which God had created and made.

World English Bible
God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

American King James Version
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.

American Standard Version
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.

A Faithful Version
And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it because on it He rested from all His work which God had created and made.

Darby Bible Translation
And 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.

English Revised Version
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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
So God blessed the seuenth day, & sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his worke, which God had created and made.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
And God blessed the seuenth daye, & sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his worke whiche God ordeyned to make.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
And blessed the seuenth daye, & sanctified it, because yt in it he rested from all his workes, which God created and made.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
And God blessed ye seventh daye and sanctyfyed it for in it he rested from all his workes which he had created and made.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
And God blesses the seventh day, and sanctifies it, for in it He has ceased from all His work which God had created for making.

Young's Literal Translation
And God blesseth the seventh day, and sanctifieth it, for in it He hath ceased from all His work which God had prepared for making.

Smith's Literal Translation
And God will praise the seventh day, and will consecrate it, because in it he ceased from all his works which God formed to make.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Catholic Public Domain Version
And he blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. For in it, he had ceased from all his work: the work whereby God created whatever he should make.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And God blessed the seventh day and he hallowed it, because in it he rested from all his works that God created to make.

Lamsa Bible
So God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it; because in it he had rested from all his works which God created and made.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it He rested from all His work which God in creating had made.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it he ceased from all his works which God began to do.
















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