Exodus 31:16
And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy, from generation to generation, by an eternal agreement.
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- Gen 9:13 : 13 I will put my bow in the cloud and it will be for a sign of the agreement between me and the earth.
- Gen 17:11 : 11 In the flesh of your private parts you are to undergo it, as a mark of the agreement between me and you.
- Jer 50:5 : 5 They will be questioning about the way to Zion, with their faces turned in its direction, saying, Come, and be united to the Lord in an eternal agreement which will be kept in mind for ever.
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17It 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 31:13-153 verses83%
13Say 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.
14So 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.
15Six 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.
- Lev 23:31-322 verses78%
31You may not do any sort of work: this is an order for ever through all your generations wherever you may be living.
32Let 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.
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31It is a special Sabbath for you, and you are to keep yourselves from pleasure; it is an order for ever.
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8Every Sabbath day regularly, the priest is to put it in order before the Lord: it is offered for the children of Israel, an agreement made for ever.
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3On 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 35:2-32 verses77%
2Six 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.
3No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day.
- Exod 16:29-302 verses77%
29See, 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.
30So the people took their rest on the seventh day.
- Exod 20:8-114 verses76%
8Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day.
9On six days do all your work:
10But 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:
11For 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.
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12Keep the Sabbath day as a holy day, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God.
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2Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.
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2Say 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.
- 1 Chr 16:15-173 verses75%
15He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;
16The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;
17And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;
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30Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord.
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21Six 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.
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12And 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.
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20And keep my Sabbaths holy; and they will be a sign between me and you so that it may be clear to you that I am the Lord your God.
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14And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever.
- Jer 17:21-222 verses73%
21This 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;
22And 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;
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24And 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;
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10So let this order be kept, at the right time, from year to year.
- Lev 26:34-352 verses72%
34Then will the land take pleasure in its Sabbaths while it is waste and you are living in the land of your haters; then will the land have rest.
35All the days while it is waste will the land have rest, such rest as it never had in your Sabbaths, when you were living in it.
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24And you are to keep this as an order to you and to your sons for ever.
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31So then, keep my orders and do them: I am the Lord.
- Deut 5:14-152 verses72%
14But 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.
15And 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.
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2Happy is the man who does this, and the son of man whose behaviour is so ordered; who keeps the Sabbath holy, and his hand from doing any evil.
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10And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;
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3And 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.
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4For in one place he has said of the seventh day, And God had rest from all his works on the seventh day;
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8For 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.
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47All Israel is to keep the feast.
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36If the order of these things before me is ever broken, says the Lord, then will the seed of Israel come to an end as a nation before me for ever.
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9So that there is still a Sabbath-keeping for the people of God.
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26For six days you will get it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.
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21And on the same day, let it be given out that there will be a holy meeting for you: you may do no field-work on that day: it is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.