With creation completed the Hebrew text emphasizes finishing, blessing, and sanctifying (setting apart, making holy). That is, God completed and blessed His creation. With creation and making from His creation over all future development on earth would be pro-creation since creation had ceased. The text says that God rested. In Hebrew this is Shabbat and it is used as a verb as in ceasing activity. Later in Exodus it will be used as a noun when the Law was given at Sinai to include the Sabbath. Verse three says that God hallowed or set apart the seventh day. Which means he exulted His creative (bara) efforts and His making (asah) efforts. Later in the history of the nation Israel they will be given the sabbath command on the basis of the seventh day of creation (Exodus 31:17) but not now. The subject of the Sabbath has been a source of much confusion in Christianity.
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