to tell the people of Israel, "Keep the Sabbath, my day of rest, because it is a sign between you and me for all time to come, to show that I, the LORD, have made you my own people.

I made the keeping of the Sabbath a sign of the agreement between us, to remind them that I, the LORD, make them holy.

Make the Sabbath a holy day, so that it will be a sign of the covenant we made, and will remind you that I am the LORD your God.

God looked at everything he had made, and he was very pleased. Evening passed and morning came---that was the sixth day.

By the seventh day God finished what he had been doing and stopped working.

He blessed the seventh day and set it apart as a special day, because by that day he had completed his creation and stopped working.

We who believe, then, do receive that rest which God promised. It is just as he said, "I was angry and made a solemn promise: 'They will never enter the land where I would have given them rest!' " He said this even though his work had been finished from the time he created the world.

For somewhere in the Scriptures this is said about the seventh day: "God rested on the seventh day from all his work."

For those who receive that rest which God promised will rest from their own work, just as God rested from his.

God looked at everything he had made, and he was very pleased. Evening passed and morning came---that was the sixth day.

In the dawn of that day the stars sang together, and the heavenly beings shouted for joy.

May the glory of the LORD last forever! May the LORD be happy with what he has made!

I will take pleasure in doing good things for them, and I will establish them permanently in this land.