Exodus 20:8

New American Bible - revised edition

Remember the sabbath day—keep it holy.

Cross References

Genesis 2:2

On the seventh day God completed the work he had been doing; he rested on the seventh day from all the work he had undertaken.

Genesis 2:3

God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work he had done in creation. The Garden of Eden.

Nehemiah 13:15

In those days I perceived that people in Judah were treading the wine presses on the sabbath; that they were bringing in sheaves of grain, loading them on their donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs, and every other kind of load, and bringing them to Jerusalem on the sabbath day. I warned them to sell none of these provisions.

Nehemiah 9:14

Your holy sabbath you made known to them, commandments, statutes, and law you prescribed for them, by the hand of Moses your servant.

Exodus 23:12

For six days you may do your work, but on the seventh day you must rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and that the son of your maidservant and the resident alien may be refreshed.

Exodus 31:12

The Lord said to Moses:

Exodus 35:1

Moses assembled the whole Israelite community and said to them, “These are the words the Lord has commanded to be observed.

Isaiah 56:2

Happy is the one who does this, whoever holds fast to it: Keeping the sabbath without profaning it, keeping one’s hand from doing any evil.

Isaiah 58:13

If you refrain from trampling the sabbath, from following your own pursuits on my holy day; If you call the sabbath a delight, the Lord’s holy day glorious; If you glorify it by not following your ways, seeking your own interests, or pursuing your own affairs—

Jeremiah 17:21

Thus says the Lord: As you love your lives, take care not to carry burdens on the sabbath, to bring them in through the gates of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 17:22

Bring no burden from your homes on the sabbath. Do no work whatever, but keep holy the sabbath day, as I commanded your ancestors,

Jeremiah 17:24

If you truly obey me—oracle of the Lord—and carry no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath, keeping the sabbath day holy and abstaining from all work on it,

Ezekiel 20:20

keep holy my sabbaths as a sign between me and you so that you may know that I am the Lord, your God.

Leviticus 19:3

Each of you revere your mother and father, and keep my sabbaths. I, the Lord, am your God.

Leviticus 19:30

Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 23:3

For six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a sabbath of complete rest, a declared holy day; you shall do no work. It is the Lord’s sabbath wherever you dwell. Passover.

Leviticus 26:2

Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

Numbers 15:32

While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was discovered gathering wood on the sabbath day.

Deuteronomy 5:12

Observe the sabbath day—keep it holy, as the Lord, your God, commanded you.