Question: God rested in the 7th day. Did He take a nap?  

Does the Bible indicate that He sleeps?

Answer: 
No! God doesn't sleep nor needs to sleep. God is not a human.

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> Indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. (Psalm 121:4, NIV)
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I would mock and laugh at any god who needs to sleep. A god who needs to sleep is not a true God at all. The idea that God would sleep was humorous to Elijah the prophet.

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> At noon Elijah began to make fun of them. “Pray louder!” he said. “If
>  Baal really is a god, maybe he is thinking, or busy, or traveling!
>  Maybe he is sleeping so you will have to wake him!” (1 Kings 18:27,
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The confusion about God resting comes from the translation of the original word used in Hebrew.

That original word was:

שָׁבַת 

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> shabath (shaw-bath') v.
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> KJV: (cause to, let, make to) cease, celebrate, cause (make) to fail, keep (sabbath), suffer to be lacking, leave, put away (down), (make to) rest, rid, still, take away. 
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For some reason many people want to take the word to mean strictly to repose, or sleep, while disregarding it's most common usage which is to ***stop from exertion***.

All Scriptures quoted are from the King James translation.

Genesis 2:1 through 3

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> 1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 
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> 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 
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> 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
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These verses make more sense when we substitute the word celebrate instead of rested and rested from especially in view of later references to the sabbath 

Exodus 20:8 through 11

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> 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
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> 9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 
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> 10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 
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Sometimes when I am doing something, especially if it is strenuous; I will stop for awhile and catch my breath, (I'm no spring chicken any longer) that may be called rest. However, when I have finished what I was doing I desist from working on it and that rest is different from the break I take in the middle of the task.

On those rare occasions when I do a really good job I have a tendency to step back and admire my work as I: so to speak; rest. That is much different from both of the rests described above.

Having considered all those things it seems to me that after:

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> Genesis 1:31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 
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That might just have been what God did. And it also may have been the reason he commanded us:

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> Exodus 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 
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Perhaps he just might have wanted us to remember on that day once a week that it had only taken him six days to create all of this and give him thanks for doing it.