Exodus 31:13

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“Say to the people of Israel, ‘You shall keep my sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you.

Cross References

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 31:12

And the Lord said to Moses,

Exodus 31:17

It is a sign for ever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.’ ”

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.”

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.

Ezekiel 20:12

Moreover I gave them my sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, 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, that you may know that I the Lord am your God.

Ezekiel 37:28

Then the nations will know that I the Lord sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary is in the midst of them for evermore.”

Ezekiel 44:24

In a controversy they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and they shall keep my sabbaths holy.

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 20:8

Keep my statutes, and do them; I am the Lord who sanctify you.

Leviticus 21:8

You shall consecrate him, for he offers the bread of your God; he shall be holy to you; for I the Lord, who sanctify you, am holy.

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 25:2

“Say to the people of Israel, When you come into the land which I give you, the land shall keep a sabbath to the Lord.

Leviticus 26:2

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

Amos 8:5

saying, “When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great, and deal deceitfully with false balances,

Matthew 23:17

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

John 17:17

Sanctify them in the truth; thy word is truth.

John 17:19

And for their sake I consecrate myself, that they also may be consecrated in truth.

Deuteronomy 5:12

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

1 Thessalonians 5:23

May the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; 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, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ: