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Atomic Bible
Genesis 2:2
And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
from The Seventh Day, Genesis 2:1-3
What it says

By the seventh day God has finished his work and rests from it. The work ceases because it is complete.

What it is doing

This verse introduces divine rest as the fitting end of creation.

In context

1Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. 2And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work. 3Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.