Deuteronomy 5:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 “ ‘Observe the Sabbath day and keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Observe the Sabbath day to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. American Standard Version (1901) Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee. Common English Bible Keep the Sabbath day and treat it as holy, exactly as the LORD your God commanded: Catholic Public Domain Version Observe the day of the Sabbath, so that you may sanctify it, just as the Lord your God has instructed you. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. |
In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens that they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, and I warned them at that time against selling food.
he said to them, “This is what the Lord has commanded: Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord; bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil, and all that is left over put aside to be kept until morning.”
“You yourself are to speak to the Israelites, ‘You shall surely keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, given in order that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you.
Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death.
And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord, to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord, and to be his servants, all who keep the Sabbath and do not profane it and hold fast my covenant—
If you refrain from trampling the Sabbath, from pursuing your own interests on my holy day; if you call the Sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, serving your own interests or pursuing your own affairs;
And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors.
Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for humankind and not humankind for the Sabbath,