You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
Parallel translations
- WEB “‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
- KJV Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
- NKJV ‘You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I am the Lord.
- NASB You shall keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am the Lord.
- NLT “Keep my Sabbath days of rest, and show reverence toward my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
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Quick answer
Israel must keep God's Sabbaths and reverence His sanctuary. Worship and rest in God are central to holy living.
Overview
Set among ethical commands, this verse anchors holiness in worship: honoring the Sabbath and revering the place of God's presence. Reverence for what is holy shapes a people who belong to a holy God. The Sabbath rest ultimately points to the rest found in Christ (Heb. 4), and the sanctuary foreshadows His own presence among His people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 16
- Lev 26:2You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
- Lev 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
- Eccl 5:1Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
- Exod 20:8Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
- Ps 89:7In the council of the holy ones, God is greatly feared, and awesome above all who surround Him.
- Lev 16:2And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
- 2 Cor 6:16What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
- Matt 21:13And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- 2 Chr 36:14Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
- 1 Pet 4:17For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?
- Lev 15:31You must keep the children of Israel separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling My tabernacle, which is among them.
- John 2:15–16So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
- Gen 28:16–17When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”
- Lev 10:3Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD meant when He said: ‘To those who come near Me I will show My holiness, and in the sight of all the people I will reveal My glory.’” But Aaron remained silent.
- 2 Chr 33:7Manasseh even took the carved image he had made and set it up in the house of God, of which God had said to David and his son Solomon, “In this temple and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I will establish My Name forever.
- Ezek 9:6Slaughter the old men, the young men and maidens, the women and children; but do not go near anyone who has the mark. Now begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.
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Every sacrifice, every priest, and every day of atonement points beyond itself to the one perfect offering and the great High Priest who, by his own blood, makes the unclean holy once for all.
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