Exodus 16:29

Bible in Basic English (1941)

See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives you on the sixth day bread enough for two days; let every man keep where he is; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 58:13-14 : 13 If you keep the Sabbath with care, not doing your business on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after your pleasure, or saying unholy words; 14 Then the Lord will be your delight; and I will put you on the high places of the earth; and I will give you the heritage of Jacob your father: for the mouth of the Lord has said it.
  • Ezek 20:12 : 12 And further, I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, so that it might be clear that I, who make them holy, am the Lord.
  • Luke 23:56 : 56 And they went back and got ready spices and perfumes; and on the Sabbath they took their rest, in agreement with the law.
  • Exod 31:13 : 13 Say to the children of Israel that they are to keep my Sabbaths; for the Sabbath day is a sign between me and you through all your generations; so that you may see that I am the Lord who makes you holy.
  • Neh 9:14 : 14 And you gave them word of your holy Sabbath, and gave them orders and rules and a law, by the hand of Moses your servant:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 16:30
    85%

    30 So the people took their rest on the seventh day.

  • Exod 16:25-28
    4 verses
    84%

    25 And Moses said, Make your meal today of what you have, for this day is a Sabbath to the Lord: today you will not get any in the fields.

    26 For six days you will get it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.

    27 But still on the seventh day some of the people went out to get it, and there was not any.

    28 And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you go against my orders and my laws?

  • Exod 16:22-23
    2 verses
    82%

    22 And on the sixth day they took up twice as much of the bread, two omers for every person: and all the rulers of the people gave Moses word of it.

    23 And he said, This is what the Lord has said, Tomorrow is a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord: what has to be cooked may be cooked; and what is over, put on one side to be kept till the morning.

  • Deut 16:8
    79%

    8 For six days let your food be unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there is to be a holy meeting to the Lord your God; no work is to be done.

  • Lev 23:3
    79%

    3 On six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a special day of rest, a time for worship; you may do no sort of work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you may be living.

  • Exod 16:4-5
    2 verses
    79%

    4 Then the Lord said to Moses, See, I will send down bread from heaven for you; and the people will go out every day and get enough for the day's needs; so that I may put them to the test to see if they will keep my laws or not.

    5 And on the sixth day they are to make ready what they get in, and it will be twice as much as they get on the other days.

  • Exod 20:8-11
    4 verses
    78%

    8 Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day.

    9 On six days do all your work:

    10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you:

    11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this reason the Lord has given his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy.

  • Exod 31:14-17
    4 verses
    77%

    14 So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off from his people.

    15 Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.

    16 And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy, from generation to generation, by an eternal agreement.

    17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; because in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he took his rest and had pleasure in it.

  • Exod 35:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2 Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death.

    3 No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day.

  • Exod 12:16
    76%

    16 And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is necessary for everyone's food.

  • Exod 34:21
    76%

    21 Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.

  • Deut 5:12-15
    4 verses
    75%

    12 Keep the Sabbath day as a holy day, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God.

    13 On six days do all your work:

    14 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you.

    15 And keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God took you out of that land by his strong hand and his stretched-out arm: for this reason the Lord has given you orders to keep the Sabbath day.

  • Exod 16:16
    74%

    16 This is what the Lord has said, Let every man take up as much as he has need of; at the rate of one omer for every person, let every man take as much as is needed for his family.

  • Jer 17:21-22
    2 verses
    74%

    21 This is what the Lord has said: See to yourselves, that you take up no weight on the Sabbath day, or take it in through the doors of Jerusalem;

    22 And take no weight out of your houses on the Sabbath day, or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I gave orders to your fathers;

  • Exod 16:32
    73%

    32 And Moses said, This is the order which the Lord has given: Let one omer of it be kept for future generations, so that they may see the bread which I gave you for your food in the waste land, when I took you out from the land of Egypt.

  • Exod 23:12
    73%

    12 For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.

  • Num 28:25
    73%

    25 Then on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.

  • Gen 2:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 And on the seventh day God came to the end of all his work; and on the seventh day he took his rest from all the work which he had done.

    3 And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.

  • Lev 25:6
    72%

    6 And the Sabbath of the land will give food for you and your man-servant and your woman-servant and those working for payment, and for those of another country who are living among you;

  • Heb 4:4
    72%

    4 For in one place he has said of the seventh day, And God had rest from all his works on the seventh day;

  • Deut 16:15
    72%

    15 Keep the feast to the Lord your God for seven days, in the place marked out by the Lord: because the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all the produce of your land and all the work of your hands, and you will have nothing but joy.

  • Exod 13:6
    71%

    6 For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord.

  • Num 29:35
    71%

    35 On the eighth day let there be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work;

  • Exod 16:19
    71%

    19 And Moses said to them, Let nothing be kept till the morning.

  • Lev 23:32
    71%

    32 Let this be a Sabbath of special rest to you, and keep yourselves from all pleasure; on the ninth day of the month at nightfall from evening to evening, let this Sabbath be kept.

  • Lev 25:2
    71%

    2 Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land which I will give you, let the land keep a Sabbath to the Lord.

  • Jer 17:24
    71%

    24 And it will be, that if with all care you give ear to me, says the Lord, and take no weight through the doorways of this town on the Sabbath day, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work in it;

  • Lev 26:2
    71%

    2 Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 23:6
    71%

    6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread.