Exodus 31:15-17

The Voice

¹⁵ You have six days out of every week to do whatever work is needed, but the seventh day is the Sabbath, a day set aside for rest and only rest. It is sacred to Me. Anyone who works on the Sabbath must be executed. ¹⁶ Therefore, the Israelites are to keep the Sabbath and celebrate it throughout all their generations as an everlasting covenant. ¹⁷ The Sabbath exists as a sign forever of the covenant between Me and the people of Israel for I made heaven and earth in six days, but then on the seventh day I stopped My work and was refreshed.”