“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
Parallel translations
- KJV Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
- BSB You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for 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 26:2“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am Yahweh.
- Lev 19:3“‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
- Eccl 5:1Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.
- Exod 20:8“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
- Ps 89:7a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?
- Lev 16:2and Yahweh said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother, not to come at all times into the Most Holy Place within the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark; lest he die: for I will appear in the cloud on the mercy seat.
- 2 Cor 6:16What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
- Matt 21:13He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”
- 2 Chr 36:14Moreover all the chiefs of the priests, and the people, trespassed very greatly after all the abominations of the nations; and they polluted Yahweh’s house which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
- 1 Pet 4:17For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?
- Lev 15:31“‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, so they will not die in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.’”
- John 2:15–16He made a whip of cords, and threw all out of the temple, both the sheep and the oxen; and he poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew their tables.
- Gen 28:16–17Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, “Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn’t know it.”
- Lev 10:3Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, ‘I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.’” Aaron held his peace.
- 2 Chr 33:7He set the engraved image of the idol, which he had made, in God’s house, of which God said to David and to Solomon his son, “In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name forever.
- Ezek 9:6Kill utterly the old man, the young man, the virgin, little children and women; but don’t come near any man on whom is the mark. Begin at my sanctuary.” Then they began at the old men who were before the house.
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