Deuteronomy 5:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) “ ‘Observe the sabbath day, to 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 men treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on asses; and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day; and I warned them on the day when they sold 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 will bake and boil what you will boil, and all that is left over lay by to be kept till the morning.’ ”
“Say to the people of Israel, ‘You shall keep my sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, 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, every one who keeps the sabbath, and does not profane it, and holds fast my covenant—
“If you turn back your foot from the sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day, and call the sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;
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 fathers.
And he said to them, “The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath;