The Sabbath was established by God after He made the world in six days. He was the first one to celebrate it and declared this seventh day a period of rest. God established a pause (rhythm). The Sabbath is a regular, rhythmic time of rest. The other main Hebrew word for rest used in the Hebrew Scriptures is nuakh. This means to “dwell” or “settle.” God sets up shabbat and nuakh right around the same time. God works for six days creating the world and rests on the seventh day.Only a few verses later, we read that God creates humans and then immediately “rests them” or “settles them” with himself in the garden of Eden (nuakh) Genesis 2:15 Then the Lord God took the man and put him into the garden of Eden to cultivate it and keep it.