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Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 19:30 · King James Version
Parallel translations
  • WEB “‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
  • BSB You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
  • ESV You 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 26:2Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
  • Lev 19:3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
  • Eccl 5:1Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
  • Exod 20:8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
  • Ps 89:7God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.
  • Lev 16:2And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
  • 2 Cor 6:16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
  • Matt 21:13And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.
  • 2 Chr 36:14Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
  • 1 Pet 4:17For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
  • Lev 15:31Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.
  • John 2:15–16And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables;
  • Gen 28:16–17And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew it not.
  • Lev 10:3Then Moses said unto Aaron, This is it that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.
  • 2 Chr 33:7And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:
  • Ezek 9:6Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.

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  • VideoBibleProject — Leviticus videosBibleProject · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryEnduring Word — verse-by-verseDavid Guzik · Lay · Free · evangelical

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  • CommentaryMatthew Henry on LeviticusMatthew Henry · Pastoral · Free · evangelical

    The beloved Puritan exposition of this whole book — warm, devotional, and verse by verse (free, CCEL).

  • ReferenceInterlinear, lexicon & Strong'sBlue Letter Bible · Seminary · Free

    Hebrew/Greek interlinear, word definitions, and cross-references for this verse.

Christ at the center

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.

How Leviticus 19:30 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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