◄ Hebrews 4:4 ►
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Good News Translation
For somewhere in the Scriptures this is said about the seventh day: "God rested on the seventh day from all his work."

New Revised Standard Version
For in one place it speaks about the seventh day as follows, “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”

Contemporary English Version
In fact, somewhere the Scriptures say that by the seventh day, God had finished his work, and so he rested.

New American Bible
For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this manner, “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works”;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For in a certain place he spoke of the seventh day thus: And God rested the seventh day from all his works.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For in a certain place he spoke of the seventh day thus: And God rested the seventh day from all his works.

in.

Hebrews 2:6 But one in a certain place hath testified, saying: What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

God.

Genesis 2:1,2 So the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the furniture of them. . . .

Exodus 20:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.

Exodus 31:17 Between me and the children of Israel, and a perpetual sign. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased from work.

Context
The Sabbath Rest
…3For we, who have believed, shall enter into rest; as he said: As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest; and this indeed when the works from the foundation of the world were finished. 4For in a certain place he spoke of the seventh day thus: And God rested the seventh day from all his works. 5And in this place again: If they shall enter into my rest.…
Cross References
Genesis 2:2
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 done.

Exodus 20:11
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.

Exodus 31:17
Between me and the children of Israel, and a perpetual sign. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased from work.

Deuteronomy 5:14
The seventh is the day of the sabbath, that is, the rest of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not do any work therein, thou nor thy son nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy beasts, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest, even as thyself.

Hebrews 2:6
But one in a certain place hath testified, saying: What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

Hebrews 4:10
For he that is entered into his rest, the same also hath rested from his works, as God did from his.

Hebrews 4:3
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