You must not carry a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day, but you must keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your forefathers.
Parallel translations
- WEB neither carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day, neither do any work: but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.
- KJV Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
- NKJV nor carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day, nor do any work, but hallow the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
- NASB You shall not bring a load out of your houses on the Sabbath day nor do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your forefathers.
- NLT Do not do your work on the Sabbath, but make it a holy day. I gave this command to your ancestors,
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Quick answer
The people are to do no work and carry no burdens from their homes on the Sabbath, keeping it holy as God commanded their fathers. Obedience here reflects reverence for God.
Overview
God repeats the command to cease ordinary labor and to set the Sabbath apart, recalling the instruction given to earlier generations (Exodus 20:8-11). Hallowing the day was both worship and a confession that God is provider and Lord of time. Christians honor the principle of God-centered rest as fulfilled and renewed in Christ.
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Cross-references · 16
- Ezek 20:12I also gave them My Sabbaths as a sign between us, so that they would know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
- Exod 20:8–10Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
- Isa 58:13If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words,
- Isa 56:2–6Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
- Exod 23:12For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.
- Exod 16:23–29He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.’”
- Exod 31:13–17“Tell the Israelites, ‘Surely you must keep My Sabbaths, for this will be a sign between Me and you for the generations to come, so that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
- Deut 5:12–15Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.
- Luke 6:5Then Jesus declared, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”
- Ezek 20:20–21Keep My Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’
- Ezek 22:8You have despised My holy things and profaned My Sabbaths.
- Gen 2:2–3And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
- Luke 23:56Then they returned to prepare spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.
- Lev 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
- Rev 1:10On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
- Lev 23:3For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.
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