Quotation_auto_tanakh על בראשית 2:1

And the heavens and the earth were completed and [so were] all their hosts. And God completed by the seventh day His work which He had done, and He abstained on the seventh day, from all His work which He had done. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it for on it He abstained from all His work which God had created to do.

the sixth day.¹⁹The words יוֹם הַשִּׁשִּׁי , the sixth day, are actually the last two words of the biblical verse that immediately precedes וַיְכֻלּוּ , which is the beginning of Kiddush. These two words are added as a preface to the actual Kiddush because the first letters of these two Hebrew words Y (yud) and H (heh) plus the first letters of the two words וַיְכֻלּוּ הַשָּׁמַיִם , V (vov) and H (heh), form the Four Letter Name of God. Because these two words are part of a verse, the Sages incorporated the preceding words, וַיְהִי עֶרֶב וַיְהִי בקֶר and there was morning and there was evening, to form a complete sentence. These words however, are said quietly as they do not relate to the Kiddush. And the heavens and the earth were completed and [so were] all their hosts. And God completed, by the seventh day,²⁰God completed His work at the precise moment which marked the beginning of the seventh day, but nevertheless was not part of it. The Sages comment נִכְנַס בּוֹ כְּחוּט הַשַׂעֲרָה He entered into it (the seventh day) by a hairsbreadth.— Seporno His work which He had done; and He abstained on the seventh day from all His work which He had done. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, for on it He abstained from all His work which God had created to do.²¹S.R. Hirsch translates “Which He, God, had brought into existence in order to continue the work of creation upon it.”

The Sixth Day: And they were completed - the Heavens & the Earth & all their Hosts. And G·d finished, on the Seventh Day, all the work that He had done & He rested on the Seventh Day from all the work that He had done. And G·d Blessed the Seventh Day & sanctified it, for on it He rested from all His work – that G·d created to make.

And the heavens and the earth were completed and [so were] all their hosts.²⁵The earthly hosts include all vegetation, all the living creatures, and mankind; while the heavenly hosts are the sun, moon, all the stars, and even the celestial beings such as angels.—Ramban And God completed by the seventh day²⁶God completed His work at the precise instant that marked the beginning of the seventh day.—Seporno His work which He had done, and He abstained on the seventh day, from all His work which He had done. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it for on it He abstained from all His work which God had created to do.²⁷God in His goodness, renews every day, continually the work of creation. On the Sabbath, however, God ceased even from His work of renewal. The renewal of the creation designated for the Sabbath was itself prepared and completed on the eve of the Sabbath.—Vilna Gaon