Genesis 2:2

2. On the seventh day God ended his work “The completion or finishing ( כלה ) of the work of creation on the seventh day (not on the sixth, as Sept . , Samuel, Syr . , erroneously render it) can only be understood by regarding the clauses which are connected with ויכל by Vav consec . as containing the actual completion, that is, by supposing the completion to consist, negatively, in the cessation of the work of creation, and positively, in the blessing and sanctifying of the seventh day . The cessation itself formed a part of the completion of the work . For this meaning of שׁבת , see Genesis 8:22; Job 32:1. As a human artificer completes his work just when he has brought it to his ideal and ceases to work upon it, so, in an infinitely higher sense, God completed the creation of the world with all its inhabitants by ceasing to create any thing new, and entering into the rest of his all-sufficient eternal Being, from which he had come forth, as it were, at and in the creation of a world distinct from his own essence.” Keil. God did not rest because he was weary, but because he had finished his work; and his rest was the divine refreshment of holy contemplation. Exodus 31:17. The fact that there is no mention of the morning and evening of the seventh day is no evidence that that day, as here intended, continues still .