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The Sabbath Rest

Hebrews 4:4

In 9 translations

BSB
For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this manner: “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works.”Genesis 2:2
KJV
For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
WEB
For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works;”
ASV
For he hath said somewhere of the seventh day on this wise, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works;
LSV
for He spoke in a certain place concerning the seventh [day] thus: “And God rested in the seventh day from all His works”;
YLT
for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh [day] thus: 'And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'
DBY
For he has said somewhere of the seventh [day] thus, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works:Elohim
DRC
For in a certain place he spoke of the seventh day thus: And God rested the seventh day from all his works.
GNV
For he spake in a certaine place of the seuenth day on this wise, And God did rest the seuenth day from all his workes.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
εἴρηκεν γάρ που περὶ τῆς ἑβδόμης οὕτως· Καὶ κατέπαυσεν ὁ θεὸς ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ ἑβδόμῃ ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ἔργων αὐτοῦ,
RP2018
Εἴρηκεν γάρ που περὶ τῆς ἑβδόμης οὕτως, Καὶ κατέπαυσεν ὁ θεὸς ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ ἑβδόμῃ ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ἔργων αὐτοῦ·
TR-Boyd
Εἴρηκε γάρ που περὶ τῆς ἑβδόμης οὕτω, Καὶ κατέπαυσεν ὁ Θεὸς ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ ἑβδόμῃ ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν ἔργων αὐτοῦ·
SCR1894
ειρηκεν γαρ που περι της εβδομης ουτως και κατεπαυσεν ο θεος εν τη ημερα τη εβδομη απο παντων των εργων αυτου

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  • Exodus 20:11For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
  • Genesis 2:1–2Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array. And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
  • Exodus 31:17It is a sign between Me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’”
  • Hebrews 2:6But somewhere it is testified in these words: “What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You care for him?

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