Exodus 31:16
The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.
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- Gen 9:13 : 13 I will place my rainbow in the clouds, and it will become a guarantee of the covenant between me and the earth.
- Gen 17:11 : 11 You must circumcise the flesh of your foreskins. This will be a reminder of the covenant between me and you.
- Jer 50:5 : 5 They will ask the way to Zion; they will turn their faces toward it. They will come and bind themselves to the LORD in a lasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
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17It is a sign between me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’”
- Exod 31:13-153 verses83%
13“Tell the Israelites,‘Surely you must keep my Sabbaths, for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
14So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you. Everyone who defiles it must surely be put to death; indeed, if anyone does any work on it, then that person will be cut off from among his people.
15Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD; anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.
- Lev 23:31-322 verses78%
31You must not do any work. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.
32It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves on the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening until evening you must observe your Sabbath.”
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31It is to be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves. It is a perpetual statute.
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8Each Sabbath day Aaron must arrange it before the LORD continually; this portion is from the Israelites as a perpetual covenant.
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3The Weekly Sabbath“‘Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the LORD in all the places where you live.
- Exod 35:2-32 verses77%
2In six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Anyone who does work on it will be put to death.
3You must not kindle a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.”
- Exod 16:29-302 verses77%
29See, because the LORD has given you the Sabbath, that is why he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”
30So the people rested on the seventh day.
- Exod 20:8-114 verses76%
8“Remember the Sabbath day to set it apart as holy.
9For six days you may labor and do all your work,
10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates.
11For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
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12Be careful to observe the Sabbath day just as the LORD your God has commanded you.
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2You must keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I am the LORD.
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2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land must observe a Sabbath to the LORD.
- 1 Chr 16:15-173 verses75%
15Remember continually his covenantal decree, the promise he made to a thousand generations–
16the promise he made to Abraham, the promise he made by oath to Isaac!
17He gave it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as a lasting promise,
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30Purity, Honor, Respect, and Honesty“‘You must keep my Sabbaths and fear my sanctuary. I am the LORD.
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21“On six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; even at the time of plowing and of harvest you are to rest.
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12I also gave them my Sabbaths as a reminder of our relationship, so that they would know that I, the LORD, sanctify them.
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20Treat my Sabbaths as holy and they will be a reminder of our relationship, and then you will know that I am the LORD your God.”
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14This day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a festival to the LORD– you will celebrate it perpetually as a lasting ordinance.
- Jer 17:21-222 verses73%
21The LORD says,‘Be very careful if you value your lives! Do not carry any loads in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.
22Do not carry any loads out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day. But observe the Sabbath day as a day set apart to the LORD, as I commanded your ancestors.
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24The LORD says,‘You must make sure to obey me. You must not bring any loads through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day. You must set the Sabbath day apart to me. You must not do any work on that day.
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10So you must keep this ordinance at its appointed time from year to year.
- Lev 26:34-352 verses72%
34“‘Then the land will make up for its Sabbaths all the days it lies desolate while you are in the land of your enemies; then the land will rest and make up its Sabbaths.
35All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.
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24You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.
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31“You must be sure to do my commandments. I am the LORD.
- Deut 5:14-152 verses72%
14but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the resident foreigner who lives with you, so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have rest.
15Recall that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there by strength and power. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.
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2The people who do this will be blessed, the people who commit themselves to obedience, who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it, who refrain from doing anything that is wrong.
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10He gave it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as a lasting promise,
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3God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.
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4For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way:“And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”
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8You must eat bread made without yeast for six days. The seventh day you are to hold an assembly for the LORD your God; you must not do any work on that day.
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47The whole community of Israel must observe it.
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36The LORD affirms,“The descendants of Israel will not cease forever to be a nation in my sight. That could only happen if the fixed ordering of the heavenly lights were to cease to operate before me.”
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9Consequently a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.
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26Six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”
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21“‘On this very day you must proclaim an assembly; it is to be a holy assembly for you. You must not do any regular work. This is a perpetual statute in all the places where you live throughout your generations.