Genesis 2:2

2:2 By3 the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing,4 and he ceased5 on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.

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3	tn Heb “on/in the seventh day.”
4	tn Heb “his work which he did [or “made”].”
5	tn The Hebrew term שָׁבַּת (shabbat) can be translated “to rest” (“and he rested”) but it basically means “to cease.” This is not a rest from exhaustion; it is the cessation of the work of creation.