Exodus 31:16
Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
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- Gen 9:13 : 13 I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.
- Gen 17:11 : 11 You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.
- Jer 50:5 : 5 They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces turned toward it, [saying], Come, and join yourselves to Yahweh in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.
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17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'"
- Exod 31:13-153 verses83%
13 "Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, 'Most certainly you shall keep my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
15 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.
- Lev 23:31-322 verses78%
31 You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
32 It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath."
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31 It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is a statute forever.
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8 Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before Yahweh continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an everlasting covenant.
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3 "'Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
- Exod 35:2-32 verses77%
2 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.
3 You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.'"
- Exod 16:29-302 verses77%
29 Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."
30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
- Exod 20:8-114 verses76%
8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 You shall labor six days, and do all your work,
10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;
11 for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
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12 "Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.
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2 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.
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2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh.
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15 Remember his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
16 [the covenant] which he made with Abraham, his oath to Isaac.
17 He confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
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30 "'You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
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21 "Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
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12 Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
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20 and make my Sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.
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14 This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
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21 Thus says Yahweh, 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 holy, neither do any work: but make the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
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24 It shall happen, if you diligently listen to me, says Yahweh, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, but to make the Sabbath day holy, to do no work therein;
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10 You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.
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34 Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it.
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24 You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
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31 "Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am Yahweh.
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14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which 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 livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
15 You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
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2 Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil."
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10 and confirmed the same to Jacob for a statute; to Israel for an everlasting covenant,
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3 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
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4 For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"
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8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall do no work [therein].
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47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
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36 If these ordinances depart from before me, says Yahweh, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me forever.
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9 There remains therefore a Sabbath rest for the people of God.
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26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none."
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21 You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.