Exodus 31:14

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¹⁴You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. ^(A)Whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

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Exodus 35:2-3

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²^(A)Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to death. ³^(B)You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day.”

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Numbers 15:32-36

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A Sabbathbreaker Executed

³²While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man ^(A)gathering sticks on the Sabbath day. ³³And those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation. ³⁴^(B)They put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him. ³⁵And the Lord said to Moses, ^(C)“The man shall be put to death; all the congregation shall ^(D)stone him with stones outside the camp.” ³⁶And all the congregation brought him outside the camp and stoned him to death with stones, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Ezekiel 44:24

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²⁴^(A)In a dispute, they shall act as judges, and they shall judge it according to my judgments. They shall keep my laws and my statutes in all my appointed feasts, and ^(B)they shall keep my Sabbaths holy.

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Ezekiel 20:24

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²⁴because they had not obeyed my rules, but had rejected my statutes and profaned my Sabbaths, ^(A)and their eyes were set on their fathers' idols.

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Ezekiel 20:21

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²¹^(A)But the children ^(B)rebelled against me. ^(C)They did not walk in my statutes and were not careful to obey my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; they profaned my Sabbaths.

^(D)“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them and spend my anger against them in the wilderness.

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Ezekiel 20:16

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¹⁶because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; ^(A)for their heart went after their idols.

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Ezekiel 20:12-13

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¹²Moreover, 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. ¹³^(C)But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. ^(D)They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; ^(E)and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned.

^(F)“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them.

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Isaiah 58:13-14

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¹³^(A)“If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,
    from doing your pleasure^[a] on my holy day,
and call the Sabbath a delight
    and the holy day of the Lord honorable;
if you honor it, not going your own ways,
    or seeking ^(B)your own pleasure,^[b] or talking idly;^[c]
¹⁴then you shall take delight in the Lord,
    ^(C)and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;^[d]
^(D)I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,
    ^(E)for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

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Isaiah 58:13 Or business
Isaiah 58:13 Or pursuing your own business
Isaiah 58:13 Hebrew or speaking a word
Isaiah 58:14 Or of the land

Isaiah 56:2-6

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²Blessed is the man who does this,
and the son of man who holds it fast,
^(A)who keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it,
and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

³Let not ^(B)the foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say,
    “The Lord will surely separate me from his people”;
and let not the eunuch say,
    “Behold, I am ^(C)a dry tree.”
⁴For thus says the Lord:
“To the eunuchs ^(D)who keep my Sabbaths,
    who choose the things that please me
    and hold fast my covenant,
⁵^(E)I will give in my house and within my walls
    a ^(F)monument and a name
    better than sons and daughters;
^(G)I will give them an everlasting name
    that shall not be cut off.

⁶“And ^(H)the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,
    to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord,
    and to be his servants,
everyone ^(I)who keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it,
    and holds fast my covenant—

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Nehemiah 9:14

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¹⁴^(A)and you made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses your servant.

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Deuteronomy 5:12-15

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¹²“‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. ¹³Six days you shall labor and do all your work, ¹⁴but ^(A)the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, ^(B)that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. ¹⁵^(C)You shall remember that you were a slave^[a] in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there ^(D)with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.