For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it.
Ezekiel 20:20 - New Revised Standard Version 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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And hallow (separate and keep holy) My Sabbaths, and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know, understand, and realize that I am the Lord your God. American Standard Version (1901) and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God. Common English Bible Make my sabbaths holy, and let them be a sign between us that I am the LORD your God. Catholic Public Domain Version And sanctify my Sabbaths, so that these may be a sign between me and you, and so that you may know that I am the Lord your God.' Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And sanctify my sabbaths: that they may be a sign between me and you, and that you may know that I am the Lord your God. |
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it.
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.
If you refrain from trampling the sabbath, from pursuing your own interests on my holy day; if you call the sabbath a delight and the holy day of the Lord honorable; if you honor it, not going your own ways, serving your own interests, or pursuing your own affairs;
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.
But if you listen to me, says the Lord, and bring in no burden by the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but keep the sabbath day holy and do no work on it,
But if you do not listen to me, to keep the sabbath day holy, and to carry in no burden through the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day, then I will kindle a fire in its gates; it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and shall not be quenched.
Moreover I gave them my sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, so that they might know that I the Lord sanctify them.
I defiled them through their very gifts, in their offering up all their firstborn, in order that I might horrify them, so that they might know that I am the Lord.
In a controversy 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.