Exodus 20:8

New International Version

“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

Cross References

Genesis 2:2

By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.

Genesis 2:3

Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.

Nehemiah 13:15

In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs and all other kinds of loads. And they were bringing all this into Jerusalem on the Sabbath. Therefore I warned them against selling food on that day.

Nehemiah 9:14

You made known to them your holy Sabbath and gave them commands, decrees and laws through your servant Moses.

Exodus 23:12

“Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed.

Exodus 31:12

Then the Lord said to Moses,

Exodus 35:1

Moses assembled the whole Israelite community and said to them, “These are the things the Lord has commanded you to do:

Isaiah 56:2

Blessed is the one who does this— the person who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it, and keeps their hands from doing any evil.”

Isaiah 58:13

“If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath and from doing as you please on my holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight and the Lord’s holy day honorable, and if you honor it by not going your own way and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,

Jeremiah 17:21

This is what the Lord says: Be careful not to carry a load on the Sabbath day or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 17:22

Do not bring a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors.

Jeremiah 17:24

But if you are careful to obey me, declares the Lord, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy by not doing any work on it,

Ezekiel 20:20

Keep my Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us. Then you will know that I am the Lord your God.”

Leviticus 19:3

“ ‘Each of you must respect your mother and father, and you must observe my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:30

“ ‘Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

Leviticus 23:3

“ ‘There are six days when you may work, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the Lord.

Leviticus 26:2

“ ‘Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

Numbers 15:32

While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

Deuteronomy 5:12

“Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the Lord your God has commanded you.