Ezekiel 20:12

God gave the Sabbaths as a sign that He is the Lord who sanctifies His people. The Sabbath marked Israel as belonging to Him.

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• Ezek 20:20and make my Sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God. ’
• Ezek 37:28The nations shall know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary shall be among them forever more.
• 1 Th 5:23May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Lev 21:23He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a defect; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’”
• Exod 20:8–11“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
• Exod 19:5–6Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice, and keep my covenant, then you shall be my own possession from among all peoples; for all the earth is mine;
• Lev 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 kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
• Mark 2:27–28He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.
• Exod 31:13–17“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.
• Deut 5:12–15“Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.
• Lev 25:4but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.
• Lev 23:24“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
• Lev 21:8You shall sanctify him therefore; for he offers the bread of your God. He shall be holy to you; for I Yahweh, who sanctify you, am holy.
• Exod 35:2‘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.
• Gen 2:3God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
• Lev 21:15He shall not profane his offspring among his people, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies him.’”
• Lev 20:8You shall keep my statutes, and do them. I am Yahweh who sanctifies you.
• Lev 23:39“‘So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.
• Neh 9:14and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,
• Exod 16:29Behold, 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.”
• Jude 1:1Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ:
• John 17:17–19Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.
• Lev 23:32It 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.”
• Col 2:16Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

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