Jeremiah 17:20-22

Keep the Sabbath Holy

²⁰ and say: 'Hear the word of the Lord, _b you kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, who enter by these gates. ²¹ Thus says the Lord: Take care for the sake of your lives, and _c do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. ²² And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath _d or do any work, but _e keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.

1. Cross References
   Jeremiah 17:19
   Thus said the Lord to me: "Go and stand in the People's Gate, by which the kings of Judah enter and by which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem.
   
2. Cross References
   John 5:10
   So the Jews said to the man who had been healed, "It is the Sabbath, and it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.
   Nehemiah 13:15 - 19
   In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food.
   
3. Cross References
   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
   Exodus 23:12
   Six days you shall do your work, but on the sev...
   Exodus 31:13
   You are to speak to the people of Israel and sa...
   Isaiah 56:2
   Blessed is the man who does this, and the son o...
   Isaiah 58:13
   If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath, fr...
   Ezekiel 20:12
   Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign be...
   Ezekiel 20:20
   And keep my Sabbaths holy that they may be a si...
   Exodus 20:8 - 11
   Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
   Deuteronomy 5:12 - 15
   'Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as t...