And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
Parallel translations
- WEB and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your 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.
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- Exod 20:8–11Remember 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 the LORD that sanctify them.
- Gen 2:3And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
- Ezek 20:20And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
- Exod 16:23And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
- Exod 16:29See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
- Neh 1:8Remember, I beseech thee, the word that thou commandedst thy servant Moses, saying, If ye transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations:
- Deut 5:31But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt 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 judgments, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, after they came forth out of Egypt,
- Lev 27:34These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.
- Deut 4:5Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
- John 1:17For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
- Exod 21:1–23Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
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