Deuteronomy 5:12-16

The Ten Commandments

12 "'Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. 13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14 but e 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 ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, f that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15 g You shall remember that you were a slave 1 in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there h with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

16 "'Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, i that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 16:29 - 30
    See! The Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.
    Hebrews 4:4
    For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.
  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.
  3. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 15:15
    You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.
    Deuteronomy 16:12
    You shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.
    Deuteronomy 24:18
    But you shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this.
    Deuteronomy 24:22
    You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this.
  4. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:34
    Or has any god ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
  5. Cross References
    Deuteronomy 4:40
    Therefore you shall keep his statutes and his commandments, which I command you today, that it may go well with you and with your children after you, and that you may prolong your days in the land that the Lord your God is giving you for all time.
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