At work with God – Day 8

₁And so the whole universe was completed. ₂By the seventh day God finished what he had been doing and stopped working. ₃He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working.

₁₂“Work six days a week, but do no work on the seventh day, so that your slaves and the foreigners who work for you and even your animals can rest.

₂₁“You have six days in which to do your work, but do not work on the seventh day, not even during ploughing time or harvest.

₈“Observe the Sabbath and keep it holy. ₉You have six days in which to do your work, ₁₀but the seventh day is a day of rest dedicated to me. On that day no one is to work — neither you, your children, your slaves, your animals, nor the foreigners who live in your country. ₁₁In six days I, the LORD, made the earth, the sky, the sea, and everything in them, but on the seventh day I rested. That is why I, the LORD, blessed the Sabbath and made it holy.