Holiness: Beginning from the Beginning (Genesis)

God establishes definitions: good [1:14; 1:10; 1:12; 1:18; 1:21; 1:25], very good [1:31}, holy [2:3].

God judges the work of creation in 1:31: "God saw all that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, the sixth day."

God completes and blesses in 2:1-3: "Thus the heavens and the earth were completed, and all their hosts. By the seventh day God had completed the work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all the work which He had done. Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He rested from all His work which God had created and made."

What is my point here? God, who alone is holy, is the one who sets the standard, who alone can truly bless and sanctify. The first occasion of this is seen in Genesis 2:3.