Exodus 20:8 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁸ “Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ [Earnestly] remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy (withdrawn from common employment and dedicated to God).

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Common English Bible

⁸ Remember the Sabbath day and treat it as holy.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Remember that you are to sanctify the day of the Sabbath.

Exodus 20:8 Cross References

Genesis 2:2

And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

Genesis 2:3

So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all his work which he had done in creation.

Nehemiah 13:15

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.

Nehemiah 9:14

and thou didst make known to them thy holy sabbath and command them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses thy servant.

Exodus 23:12

“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your ass may have rest, and the son of your bondmaid, and the alien, may be refreshed.

Exodus 31:12

And the Lord said to Moses,

Exodus 35:1

Moses assembled all the congregation of the people of Israel, and said to them, “These are the things which the Lord has commanded you to do.

Isaiah 56:2

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the sabbath, not profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

Isaiah 58:13

“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;

Jeremiah 17:21

Thus says the Lord: Take heed for the sake of your lives, and do not bear a burden on the sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.

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 fathers.

Jeremiah 17:24

“ ‘But if you listen to me, says the Lord, and bring in no burden by the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but keep the sabbath day holy and do no work on it,

Ezekiel 20:20

and hallow my sabbaths that they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I the Lord am your God.

Leviticus 19:3

Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:30

You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 23:3

Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no work; it is a sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.

Leviticus 26:2

You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

Numbers 15:32

While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day.

Deuteronomy 5:12

“ ‘Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.