Ezekiel 20:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Exod 20:8-9 : 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.
  • Lev 21:23 : 23 But he may not go inside the veil or come near the altar, because he is damaged; and he may not make my holy places common; for I the Lord have made them holy.
  • Deut 5:12-15 : 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.
  • Ezek 20:20 : 20 And 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.
  • Ezek 37:28 : 28 And the nations will be certain that I who make Israel holy am the Lord, when my holy place is among them for ever.
  • Mark 2:27-28 : 27 And he said to them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath; 28 So that the Son of man is lord even of the Sabbath.
  • John 17:17-19 : 17 Make them holy by the true word: your word is the true word. 18 Even as you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 And for them I make myself holy, so that they may be made truly holy.
  • Col 2:16 : 16 For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths:
  • 1 Thess 5:23 : 23 And may the God of peace himself make you holy in every way; and may your spirit and soul and body be free from all sin at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Jude 1:1 : 1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and the brother of James, to those of God's selection who have been made holy by God the Father and are kept safe for Jesus Christ:
  • 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:
  • Gen 2:3 : 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.
  • Exod 16:29 : 29 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.
  • Exod 19:5-6 : 5 If now you will truly give ear to my voice and keep my agreement, you will be my special property out of all the peoples: for all the earth is mine: 6 And you will be a kingdom of priests to me, and a holy nation. These are the words which you are to say to the children of Israel.
  • Lev 23:3 : 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.
  • Lev 23:24 : 24 Say to the children of Israel, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a special day of rest for you, a day of memory, marked by the blowing of horns, a meeting for worship.
  • Lev 23:32 : 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 23:39 : 39 But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have got in all the fruits of the land, you will keep the feast of the Lord for seven days: the first day will be a Sabbath, and the eighth day the same.
  • Lev 25:4 : 4 But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut.
  • Exod 31:13-17 : 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. 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 : 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.
  • Lev 20:8 : 8 And keep my rules and do them: I am the Lord, who make you holy.
  • Lev 21:8 : 8 And he is to be holy in your eyes, for by him the bread of your God is offered; he is to be holy in your eyes, for I the Lord, who make you holy, am holy.
  • Lev 21:15 : 15 And he may not make his seed unclean among his people, for I the Lord have made him holy.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Ezek 20:19-22
    4 verses
    91%

    19I am the Lord your God; be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them:

    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.

    21But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.

    22And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean in the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had taken them out.

  • Exod 31:12-13
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    84%

    12And the Lord said to Moses,

    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.

  • Ezek 20:13-17
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    77%

    13But the children of Israel would not be controlled by me in the waste land: they were not guided by my rules, and they were turned away from my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said that I would let loose my passion on them in the waste land, and put an end to them.

    14And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean in the eyes of the nations, before whose eyes I had taken them out.

    15And further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land, that I would not take them into the land which I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands;

    16Because they were turned away from my orders, and were not guided by my rules, and had no respect for my Sabbaths: for their hearts went after their images.

    17But still my eye had pity on them and I kept them from destruction and did not put an end to them completely in the waste land.

  • Ezek 20:9-11
    3 verses
    77%

    9And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean before the eyes of the nations among whom they were, and before whose eyes I gave them knowledge of myself, by taking them out of the land of Egypt.

    10So I made them go out of the land of Egypt and took them into the waste land.

    11And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.

  • Lev 19:30
    77%

    30Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 26:2
    77%

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

  • Lev 20:7-8
    2 verses
    77%

    7So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.

    8And keep my rules and do them: I am the Lord, who make you holy.

  • Ezek 37:28
    75%

    28And the nations will be certain that I who make Israel holy am the Lord, when my holy place is among them for ever.

  • Exod 31:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

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

    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.

  • Ezek 11:20
    73%

    20So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.

  • Lev 22:9
    73%

    9So then, let them keep what I have put into their care, for fear that sin may come on them because of it, so causing their death because they have made it common: I am the Lord, who make them holy.

  • Ezek 20:42
    73%

    42And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when I take you into the land of Israel, into the country which I made an oath to give to your fathers.

  • Exod 20:8
    72%

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

  • Deut 5:12
    72%

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

  • Neh 9:14
    72%

    14And you gave them word of your holy Sabbath, and gave them orders and rules and a law, by the hand of Moses your servant:

  • Lev 22:31-32
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    71%

    31So then, keep my orders and do them: I am the Lord.

    32And do not make my holy name common; so that it may be kept holy by the children of Israel: I am the Lord who make you holy,

  • Ezek 34:30
    71%

    30And they will be certain that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, the children of Israel, are my people, says the Lord.

  • Exod 20:11
    71%

    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.

  • Ezek 44:24
    71%

    24In any cause, they are to be in the position of judges, judging in harmony with my decisions: they are to keep my laws and my rules in all my fixed feasts; and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.

  • Ezek 20:24-26
    3 verses
    71%

    24Because they had not done my orders, but had been turned away from my rules, and had not given respect to my Sabbaths, and their eyes were turned to the images of their fathers.

    25And further, I gave them rules which were not good and orders in which there was no life for them;

    26I made them unclean in the offerings they gave, causing them to make every first child go through the fire, so that I might put an end to them.

  • Ezek 23:38
    71%

    38Further, this is what she has done to me: she has made my holy place unclean and has made my Sabbaths unclean.

  • Ezek 36:23
    71%

    23And I will make holy my great name which has been made unclean among the nations, which you have made unclean among them; and it will be clear to the nations that I am the Lord, says the Lord, when I make myself holy in you before their eyes.

  • Ezek 20:44
    71%

    44And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when I take you in hand for the honour of my name, and not for your evil ways or your unclean doings, O children of Israel, says the Lord.

  • Ezek 22:8
    71%

    8You have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean.

  • Lev 20:26
    71%

    26And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.

  • Lev 23:2
    70%

    2Say to the children of Israel, These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, which you will keep for holy meetings: these are my feasts.

  • Lev 22:16
    70%

    16So causing sin to come on them when they take their holy things for food: I am the Lord who make them holy.

  • Lev 25:2
    70%

    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.

  • Ezek 6:10
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    10And they will be certain that I am the Lord: not for nothing did I say that I would do this evil to them.

  • Ezek 14:11-12
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    70%

    11So that the children of Israel may no longer go wandering away from me, or make themselves unclean with all their wrongdoing; but they will be my people, and I will be their God, says the Lord.

    12And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

  • Ezek 39:22
    70%

    22So the children of Israel will be certain that I am the Lord their God, from that day and for the future.

  • Exod 29:46
    70%

    46And they will see that I am the Lord their God, who took them out of the land of Egypt, so that I might be ever with them: I am the Lord their God.

  • Ezek 37:26
    70%

    26And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it will be an eternal agreement with them: and I will have mercy on them and make their numbers great, and will put my holy place among them for ever.

  • Ezek 39:7
    69%

    7And I will make clear my holy name among my people Israel; I will no longer let my holy name be made unclean: and the nations will be certain that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.