11 For (A)in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

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11 For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth,(A) the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested(B) on the seventh day.(C) Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

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13 “You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, ‘Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you.

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13 “Say to the Israelites, ‘You must observe my Sabbaths.(A) This will be a sign(B) between me and you for the generations to come,(C) so you may know that I am the Lord, who makes you holy.(D)

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25 You shall not do any ordinary work, and you shall present a food offering to the Lord.”

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25 Do no regular work,(A) but present a food offering to the Lord.(B)’”

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15 (A)You shall remember that you were a slave[a] in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there (B)with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

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  1. Deuteronomy 5:15 Or servant

15 Remember that you were slaves(A) in Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand(B) and an outstretched arm.(C) Therefore the Lord your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

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12 Moreover, I gave them (A)my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, (B)that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

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12 Also I gave them my Sabbaths(A) as a sign(B) between us,(C) so they would know that I the Lord made them holy.(D)

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27 And he said to them, (A)“The Sabbath was made for man, (B)not man for the Sabbath.

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27 Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man,(A) not man for the Sabbath.(B)

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Let No One Disqualify You

16 Therefore let no one (A)pass judgment on you (B)in questions of food and drink, or with regard to (C)a festival or (D)a new moon or a Sabbath. 17 (E)These are a shadow of the things to come, but (F)the substance belongs to Christ.

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Freedom From Human Rules

16 Therefore do not let anyone judge you(A) by what you eat or drink,(B) or with regard to a religious festival,(C) a New Moon celebration(D) or a Sabbath day.(E) 17 These are a shadow of the things that were to come;(F) the reality, however, is found in Christ.

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For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: (A)“And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.” And again in this passage he said,

(B)“They shall not enter my rest.”

Since therefore it remains for some to enter it, and those who formerly received the good news (C)failed to enter because of disobedience, again he appoints a certain day, “Today,” saying through David so long afterward, in the words already quoted,

(D)“Today, if you hear his voice,
do not harden your hearts.”

For if Joshua had given them rest, God[a] would not have spoken of another day later on. So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God, 10 for whoever has entered God's rest has also (E)rested from his works as God did from his.

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  1. Hebrews 4:8 Greek he

For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “On the seventh day God rested from all his works.”[a](A) And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.”(B)

Therefore since it still remains for some to enter that rest, and since those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience,(C) God again set a certain day, calling it “Today.” This he did when a long time later he spoke through David, as in the passage already quoted:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts.”[b](D)

For if Joshua had given them rest,(E) God would not have spoken(F) later about another day. There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; 10 for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works,[c](G) just as God did from his.(H)

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 4:4 Gen. 2:2
  2. Hebrews 4:7 Psalm 95:7,8
  3. Hebrews 4:10 Or labor