Genesis 2:1–3
Day 7 breaks the pattern: no 'let there be,' no 'and it was so,' no evening and morning. Four unprecedented verbs — finished, ceased, blessed, sanctified — describe a day that is the first holy thing in the Bible. The rest is still open.
Matthew 12:40
Jesus said 'three days and three nights' — but the Emmaus disciples counted Sunday as the third day, not the fourth. The Greek and Hebrew data behind the crucifixion-day debate reveals what the text actually says and where inference begins.