Deuteronomy 5:12-15

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¹²‘^(A)Keep the Sabbath day to treat it as holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. ¹³For six days you ^[a]shall labor and do all your work, ¹⁴but ^(B)the seventh day is a Sabbath of the Lord your God; you shall not do any work that day, you or your son or your daughter, or your male slave or your female slave, or your ox, your donkey, or any of your cattle, or your ^[b]resident who ^[c]stays with you, so that your male slave and your female slave may rest as well as you. ¹⁵^(C)And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to ^[d]celebrate the Sabbath day.

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Deuteronomy 5:13 Or may
Deuteronomy 5:14 Lit stranger
Deuteronomy 5:14 Lit is in your gates
Deuteronomy 5:15 Lit perform

Matthew 12:1-14

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Sabbath Questions

12 ^[a]^(A)At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples became hungry and began to ^(B)pick the heads of grain and eat. ²Now when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what ^(C)is not lawful to do on a Sabbath!” ³But He said to them, “Have you not read what David did when he became hungry, he and his companions— ⁴how he entered the house of God, and ^(D)they ate the ^[b]consecrated bread, which was not lawful for him to eat nor for those with him, but for the priests alone? ⁵Or have you not read in the Law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple ^[c]violate the Sabbath, and yet are innocent? ⁶But I say to you that something ^(E)greater than the temple is here. ⁷But if you had known what this ^[d]means: ‘^(F)I desire ^[e]compassion, ^[f]rather than sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned ^[g]the innocent.

Lord of the Sabbath

⁸For ^(G)the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”

⁹^(H)Departing from there, He went into their synagogue. ¹⁰And a man was there whose hand was withered. And they questioned ^[h]Jesus, asking, “^(I)Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—so that they might bring charges against Him. ¹¹But He said to them, “^(J)What man ^[i]is there among you who ^[j]has a sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will he not take hold of it and lift it out? ¹²^(K)How much more valuable then is a person than a sheep! So then, it is lawful to do ^[k]good on the Sabbath.” ¹³Then He *said to the man, “Stretch out your hand!” ^(L)He stretched it out, and it was restored to ^[l]normal, like the other. ¹⁴But the Pharisees went out and ^[m]^(M)conspired against Him, as to how they might destroy Him.

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Matthew 12:1 Or On that occasion
Matthew 12:4 Lit loaves of presentation
Matthew 12:5 Or profane
Matthew 12:7 Lit is
Matthew 12:7 Or mercy
Matthew 12:7 Lit and not
Matthew 12:7 Plural in the Gr
Matthew 12:10 Lit Him
Matthew 12:11 Lit will be from you
Matthew 12:11 Lit will have
Matthew 12:12 Lit well
Matthew 12:13 Lit health
Matthew 12:14 Lit took counsel

Isaiah 58

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Observances of Fasts

58 “^(A)Cry loudly, do not hold back;
Raise your voice like a trumpet,
And declare to My people their ^(B)wrongdoing,
And to the house of Jacob their sins.
²Yet they ^(C)seek Me day by day and delight to know My ways,
As a nation that has done ^(D)righteousness
And ^(E)has not forsaken the ordinance of their God.
They ask Me for just decisions,
They delight ^(F)in the nearness of God.
³‘Why have we ^(G)fasted and You do not see?
Why have we humbled ourselves and You do not ^[a]notice?’
Behold, on the ^(H)day of your fast you find your desire,
And oppress all your workers.
⁴Behold, you fast for contention and ^(I)strife, and to strike with a wicked fist.
You do not fast like you have done today to ^(J)make your voice heard on high!
⁵Is it a fast like this that I choose, a day for a person to humble himself?
Is it for bowing ^[b]one’s head like a reed
And for spreading out ^(K)sackcloth and ashes as a bed?
Will you call this a fast, even an ^(L)acceptable day to the Lord?
⁶Is this not the fast that I choose:
To ^(M)release the bonds of wickedness,
To undo the ropes of the yoke,
And to ^(N)let the oppressed go free,
And ^(O)break every yoke?
⁷Is it not to ^(P)break your bread ^[c]with the hungry
And ^(Q)bring the homeless poor into the house;
When you see the ^(R)naked, to cover him;
And not to ^(S)hide yourself from your own flesh?
⁸Then your ^(T)light will break out like the dawn,
And your ^(U)recovery will spring up quickly;
And your ^(V)righteousness will go before you;
The glory of the ^(W)Lord will be your rear guard.
⁹Then you will ^(X)call, and the Lord will answer;
You will cry for help, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’
If you ^(Y)remove the yoke from your midst,
The ^[d]^(Z)pointing of the finger and ^(AA)speaking wickedness,
¹⁰And if you ^(AB)offer yourself to the hungry
And satisfy the ^[e]need of the afflicted,
Then your ^(AC)light will rise in darkness,
And your gloom will become like midday.
¹¹And the ^(AD)Lord will continually guide you,
And ^(AE)satisfy your ^[f]desire in scorched places,
And ^(AF)give strength to your bones;
And you will be like a ^(AG)watered garden,
And like a ^(AH)spring of water whose waters do not ^[g]fail.
¹²Those from among you will ^(AI)rebuild the ancient ruins;
You will ^(AJ)raise up the age-old foundations;
And you will be called the repairer of the ^(AK)breach,
The restorer of the ^[h]streets in which to dwell.

Keeping the Sabbath

¹³“If, because of the Sabbath, you ^(AL)restrain your foot
From doing as you wish on My holy day,
And call the Sabbath a ^(AM)pleasure, and the holy day of the Lord honorable,
And honor it, desisting from your ^(AN)own ways,
From seeking your own pleasure
And ^(AO)speaking your own word,
¹⁴Then you will take ^(AP)delight in the Lord,
And I will make you ride ^(AQ)on the heights of the earth;
And I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,
For the ^(AR)mouth of the Lord has spoken.”