Deuteronomy 5:14

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, or your son or your daughter, or your male or female slave, or your ox or your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the resident alien in your towns, so that your male and female slave may rest as well as you.

Cross References

Genesis 2:2

On the sixth day God finished the work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all the work that he had done.

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.

Nehemiah 13:16

Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of merchandise and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 13:21

But I warned them and said to them, “Why do you spend the night in front of the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.

Nehemiah 5:5

Now our flesh is the same as that of our kindred; our children are the same as their children; and yet we are forcing our sons and daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have been ravished; we are powerless, and our fields and vineyards now belong to others.”

Exodus 23:12

“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest so that your ox and your donkey may have relief and your homeborn slave and the resident alien may be refreshed.

Leviticus 23:3

“Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord throughout your settlements.

Mark 2:27

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

Luke 23:56

Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

Deuteronomy 5:13

Six days you shall labor and do all your work.

Hebrews 4:4

For somewhere it speaks about the seventh day as follows, “And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”