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.
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.
- BSB 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.
- 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.
Cross-references & the web
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- Ezek 20:12Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
- Exod 20:8–10Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
- Isa 58:13If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
- Isa 56:2–6Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
- Exod 23:12Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
- Exod 16:23–29And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
- Exod 31:13–17Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
- Deut 5:12–15Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
- Luke 6:5And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
- Ezek 20:20–21And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
- Ezek 22:8Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
- Gen 2:2–3And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
- Luke 23:56And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
- Lev 19:3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
- Rev 1:10I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
- Lev 23:3Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
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