Gen 2:3, Exo 13:2, 1Ki 8:64, Mat 23:19 | ESV | STEP | So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy , because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation .

a ver. 12, 13, 15; ch. 22:29, 30; 34:19; Lev. 27:26; Num. 3:13; 8:16, 17; 18:15; Deut. 15:19; Cited Luke 2:23

Genesis 2:3

3 So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

Exodus 13:2

2 ^a“Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.”

1 Kings 8:64

64 The same day the king consecrated the middle of the court that was before the house of the Lord, for there he offered the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings, because ^bthe bronze altar that was before the Lord was too small to receive the burnt offering and the grain offering and the fat pieces of the peace offerings.

Matthew 23:19

19 You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or ^cthe altar that makes the gift sacred?