and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,
Parallel translations
- KJV And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
- BSB You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.
- NKJV You made known to them Your holy Sabbath, And commanded them precepts, statutes and laws, By the hand of Moses Your servant.
- NASB “So You made known to them Your holy Sabbath, And gave them commandments, statutes, and law, Through Your servant Moses.
- NLT You instructed them concerning your holy Sabbath. And you commanded them, through Moses your servant, to obey all your commands, decrees, and instructions.
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Quick answer
God made known his holy Sabbath and gave commandments through Moses. It matters because the Sabbath is a gracious gift marking God's people.
Overview
Among the gifts at Sinai was the holy Sabbath, a sign of the covenant and of rest in God. The law came through Moses as God's servant, mediating God's will to Israel. The Sabbath points beyond itself to the rest believers find in Christ (Hebrews 4:9-10), who gives true and lasting rest to weary souls.
Cross-references & the web
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- Exod 20:8–11“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
- Ezek 20:12Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
- Gen 2:3God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.
- Ezek 20:20and make my Sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God. ’
- Exod 16:23He said to them, “This is that which Yahweh has spoken, ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.’”
- Exod 16:29Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”
- Neh 1:8“Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you trespass, I will scatter you among the peoples;
- Deut 5:31But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandment, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.”
- Deut 4:45These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spoke to the children of Israel, when they came out of Egypt,
- Lev 27:34These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.
- Deut 4:5Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.
- John 1:17For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.
- Exod 21:1–23“Now these are the ordinances which you shall set before them.
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