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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Resting Genesis 2:2, 3

And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work. / 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.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Resting Exodus 20:11

For 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.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Resting Exodus 31:17

It 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.’”

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Resting Deuteronomy 5:14

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.

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Anthropomorphisms: Miscellaneous Acts and States of Mind Attributed to Resting Hebrews 4:4, 10

For somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this manner: “And on the seventh day God rested from all His works.” / For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His.

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