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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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Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Dieu bénit le septième jour, et il le sanctifia, parce qu'en ce jour il se reposa de toute son oeuvre qu'il avait créée en la faisant.

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.

Patristic reading

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  • Philo Judaeus

    Legum Allegoriarum Libri I-III

    ς καὶ ὅσα θνητὰ τουτὶ ποιεῖν δοκεῖ. „Καὶ εὐλόγησεν ὁ θεὸς τὴν ἡμέραν τὴν ἑβδόμην καὶ ἡγίασεν αὐτήν“ (Gen. 2, 3). τοὺς κατὰ τὸ ἕβδομον καὶ θεῖον ὡς ἀληθῶς φῶς κινηθέντας τρόπους εὐλογεῖ τε ὁ θεὸς καὶ εὐθὺς ἁγίους ἀποφαίνει· συγγενέστατοι γὰρ ἀλλήλοις ὁ εὐλόγιστός τε καὶ ὁ ἅγιος. δ…
  • Philo Judaeus

    Legum Allegoriarum Libri I-III

    ὐλόγησέ τε καὶ ἡγίασεν, „ὅτι ἐν αὐτῇ κατέπαυσεν ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ἔργων αὐτοῦ ὧν ἤρξατο ποιεῖν ὁ θεός" (Gen. 2, 3). αἰτία δ’ ἡ δι’ ἣν εὐλόγιστός τε καὶ ἅγιος γέγονεν ὁ κατὰ τὸ ἕβδομον καὶ τέλειον φῶς ἄγων ἑαυτόν, ἐπεὶ ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ φύσει παύεται ἡ τῶν θνητῶν σύστασις. καὶ γὰρ οὕτως ἔχ…
  • Thomas Aquinas

    Summa Theologica

    hat after all had been produced, the seventh day should be blessed. On the contrary, It is written ( Gn. 2:3 ), "God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He had rested from all His work." I answer that, As said above (A[2]) , God's rest on the seventh day is u…

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