Exodus 20:8-11

The Ten Commandments

8 i "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 j Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the k 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, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the l sojourner who is within your gates. 11 For m in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

  1. Cross References
    Leviticus 19:3
    Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and you shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
    Leviticus 19:30
    You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
    Leviticus 26:2
    You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
    Exodus 31:13 - 17
    You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, 'Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you.
  2. Cross References
    Exodus 23:12
    Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.
    Exodus 34:21
    Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
    Exodus 35:2
    Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.
    Leviticus 23:3
    Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places.
    Luke 13:14
    But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the people, "There are six days in which work ought to be done. Come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.
  3. Cross References
    Exodus 16:26
    Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none.
    Exodus 31:15
    Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death.
    Genesis 2:2 - 3
    And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.
    Ezekiel 20:12
    Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.
    Numbers 15:32 - 36
    While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
  4. Cross References
    Nehemiah 13:16 - 19
    Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of goods and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah, in Jerusalem itself!
  5. Cross References
    Genesis 1:1 - 2:3
    In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
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