Exodus 20:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

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  • Exod 31:13-16 : 13 Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, Truly my Sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. 14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you: everyone who defiles it shall surely be put to death: for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people. 15 Six days may work be done; but the seventh is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. 16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a perpetual covenant.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 You shall respect every man his mother and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
  • Lev 26:2 : 2 You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
  • Gen 2:3 : 3 And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.
  • Lev 19:30 : 30 You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
  • Lev 23:3 : 3 Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, a holy gathering; you shall do no work in it; it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
  • Exod 16:23-30 : 23 And he said to them, This is what the LORD has said: Tomorrow is a Sabbath rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD; bake what you will bake today, and boil what you will boil, and lay up for yourselves all that remains, to be kept until the morning. 24 So they laid it up till the morning, as Moses commanded, and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it. 25 And Moses said, Eat that today; for today is a Sabbath to the LORD: today you will not find it in the field. 26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will be none. 27 And it came to pass that some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, but they found none. 28 And the LORD said to Moses, How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws? 29 See, the LORD has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. 30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
  • Exod 23:12 : 12 Six days you shall work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your maidservant and the foreigner may be refreshed.
  • Isa 56:4-6 : 4 For thus says the LORD to the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant; 5 Even unto them will I give in my house and within my walls a place and a name better than of sons and of daughters: I will give them an everlasting name, that shall not be cut off. 6 Also the sons of the foreigner, who join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one who keeps the sabbath from polluting it, and takes hold of my covenant;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 5:11-15
    5 verses
    87%

    11 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

    12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

    13 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work:

    14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

    15 And remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out from there through a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.

  • Exod 20:9-16
    8 verses
    86%

    9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

    10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor the stranger who is within your gates.

    11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

    12 Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you.

    13 You shall not murder.

    14 You shall not commit adultery.

    15 You shall not steal.

    16 You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.

  • Exod 20:7
    83%

    7 You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.

  • Exod 35:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

    2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

    3 You shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings on the sabbath day.

  • Lev 26:2
    78%

    2 You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

  • Lev 23:3
    78%

    3 Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, a holy gathering; you shall do no work in it; it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

  • Lev 19:30
    78%

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

  • Exod 31:13-17
    5 verses
    78%

    13 Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, Truly my Sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

    14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you: everyone who defiles it shall surely be put to death: for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.

    15 Six days may work be done; but the seventh is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

    16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a perpetual covenant.

    17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

  • Ezek 20:20
    78%

    20 And hallow my sabbaths, and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.

  • Exod 34:21
    77%

    21 Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

  • Jer 17:21-22
    2 verses
    77%

    21 Thus says the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

    22 Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do any work, but hallow the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

  • Ezek 22:8
    77%

    8 You have despised My holy things, and have profaned My sabbaths.

  • Lev 20:8
    77%

    8 And you shall keep my statutes and do them: I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

  • Deut 16:8
    75%

    8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God: you shall do no work in it.

  • Exod 20:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3 You shall have no other gods before Me.

    4 You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.

  • Lev 19:3
    75%

    3 You shall respect every man his mother and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.

  • Num 28:25
    75%

    25 And on the seventh day you shall have a holy assembly; you shall do no servile work.

  • Deut 5:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7 You shall have no other gods before me.

    8 You shall not make for yourself any carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

  • Deut 8:11
    74%

    11 Beware that you do not forget the LORD your God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command you this day:

  • Isa 58:13
    74%

    13 If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the LORD, honorable; and shall honor him, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words:

  • Lev 19:12
    74%

    12 And you shall not swear by my name falsely, nor shall you profane the name of your God: I am the LORD.

  • Matt 12:8
    73%

    8 For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath day.

  • Num 29:35
    73%

    35 On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no servile work in it:

  • Exod 16:29-30
    2 verses
    73%

    29 See, the LORD has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

    30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

  • Gen 2:3
    73%

    3 And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.

  • Exod 23:12
    73%

    12 Six days you shall work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your maidservant and the foreigner may be refreshed.

  • Lev 23:28
    73%

    28 And you shall do no work in that same day, for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God.

  • Isa 56:2
    73%

    2 Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who takes hold of it; who keeps the sabbath from polluting it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.

  • Lev 22:31
    73%

    31 Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them: I am the LORD.

  • Num 15:40
    72%

    40 That you may remember and do all My commandments, and be holy to your God.