Deuteronomy 5:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² “ ‘Observe the Sabbath day and keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Observe the Sabbath day to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee.

Common English Bible

¹² Keep the Sabbath day and treat it as holy, exactly as the LORD your God commanded:

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² Observe the day of the Sabbath, so that you may sanctify it, just as the Lord your God has instructed you.

Deuteronomy 5:12 Cross References

Isaiah 58:13

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;

Isaiah 56:6

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—

Mark 2:27

Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for humankind and not humankind for the Sabbath,

Exodus 16:23

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.”

Exodus 31:13

“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.

Exodus 31:15

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.

Deuteronomy 5:13

Six days you shall labor and do all your work.

Nehemiah 13:15

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.

Jeremiah 17:22

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.

Exodus 16:30

So the people rested on the seventh day.