You revealed to them Your holy Sabbath and gave them commandments and statutes and laws through Your servant Moses.
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- WEB and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,
- KJV And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
- 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.
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- Exod 20:8–11Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
- Ezek 20:12I also gave them My Sabbaths as a sign between us, so that they would know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
- Gen 2:3Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.
- Ezek 20:20Keep My Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’
- Exod 16:23He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.’”
- Exod 16:29Understand that the LORD has given you the Sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He will give you bread for two days. On the seventh day, everyone must stay where he is; no one may leave his place.”
- Neh 1:8Remember, I pray, the word that You commanded Your servant Moses when You said, ‘If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations,
- Deut 5:31But you stand here with Me, that I may speak to you all the commandments and statutes and ordinances you are to teach them to follow in the land that I am giving them to possess.”
- Deut 4:45These are the testimonies, statutes, and ordinances that Moses proclaimed to them after they had come out of Egypt,
- Lev 27:34These are the commandments that the LORD gave to Moses for the Israelites on Mount Sinai.
- Deut 4:5See, I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the LORD my God has commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land that you are about to enter and possess.
- John 1:17For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
- Exod 21:1–23“These are the ordinances that you are to set before them:
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