Exodus 31:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“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.

Cross References

Nehemiah 9:14

and you made known your holy Sabbath to them and gave them commandments and statutes and a law through Moses your servant.

Exodus 31:12

The Lord said to Moses,

Exodus 31:17

It is a sign forever between me and the Israelites that in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’ ”

Isaiah 56:2

Happy is the mortal who does this, the one who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it, and refrains from doing any evil.

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.

Ezekiel 20:12

Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, so that they might know that I the Lord sanctify them.

Ezekiel 20:20

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

Ezekiel 37:28

Then the nations shall know that I the Lord sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary is among them forevermore.”

Ezekiel 44:24

In a dispute they shall act as judges, and they shall decide it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes regarding all my appointed festivals, and they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.

Leviticus 19:3

You shall each revere your mother and father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:30

You shall keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

Leviticus 20:8

Keep my statutes and observe them: I am the Lord; I sanctify you.

Leviticus 21:8

and you shall treat them as holy, since they offer the food of your God; they shall be holy to you, for I the Lord, I who sanctify you, am holy.

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.

Leviticus 25:2

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land shall observe a Sabbath for the Lord.

Leviticus 26:2

You shall keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

Amos 8:5

saying, “When will the new moon be over so that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so that we may offer wheat for sale? We will make the ephah smaller and the shekel heavier and practice deceit with false balances,

Matthew 23:17

You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the sanctuary that has made the gold sacred?

John 17:17

Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.

John 17:19

And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.

Deuteronomy 5:12

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

1 Thessalonians 5:23

May the God of peace himself sanctify you entirely, and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jude 1:1

Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James, To those who are called, who are beloved in God the Father and kept safe for Jesus Christ: