“Remember (A)the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. (B)For six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God; on it (C)you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male slave or your female slave, or your cattle, or your [a]resident who [b]stays with you. 11 (D)For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and everything that is in them, and He rested on the seventh day; for that reason the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 20:10 Lit stranger
  2. Exodus 20:10 Lit is in your gates

13 “Now as for you, speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘(A)You must keep My Sabbaths; for this is (B)a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, so that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you. 14 Therefore you are to keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. (C)Everyone who profanes it must be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people. 15 (D)For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a (E)Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; (F)whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death. 16 So the sons of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to [a]celebrate the Sabbath throughout their generations as a permanent covenant.’ 17 (G)It is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever; (H)for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day He ceased from labor, and was refreshed.”

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  1. Exodus 31:16 Lit perform

“Also the (A)foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,
To attend to His service and to love the name of the Lord,
To be His servants, every one who (B)keeps the Sabbath so as not to profane it,
And holds firmly to My covenant;

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Keeping the Sabbath

13 “If, because of the Sabbath, you (A)restrain your foot
From doing as you wish on My holy day,
And call the Sabbath a (B)pleasure, and the holy day of the Lord honorable,
And honor it, desisting from your (C)own ways,
From seeking your own pleasure
And (D)speaking your own word,

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21 This is what the Lord says: “(A)Take care for yourselves, and (B)do not carry any [a]load on the Sabbath day or bring anything in through the gates of Jerusalem. 22 You shall not bring a load out of your houses on the Sabbath day (C)nor do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I (D)commanded your [b]forefathers.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:21 Or burden
  2. Jeremiah 17:22 Lit fathers

12 Also I gave them My Sabbaths to be a (A)sign between Me and them, so that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

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20 (A)Sanctify My Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, so that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’

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