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“Remember (A)the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
(B)Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of Yahweh your God; in it (C)you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female slave or your cattle or your sojourner who is within your gates.
11 (D)For in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the sabbath day and made it holy.

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13 “But as for you, speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘(A)You shall surely keep My sabbaths; for this is (B)a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am Yahweh who makes you holy. 14 Therefore you shall keep the sabbath, for it is holy to you. (C)Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people. 15 (D)Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a (E)sabbath of complete rest, holy to Yahweh; (F)whoever does any work on the sabbath day shall surely be put to death. 16 So the sons of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to [a]celebrate the sabbath throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant.’ 17 (G)It is a sign between Me and the sons of Israel forever; (H)for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.”

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 31:16 Lit do

“Also the (A)foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh,
To minister to Him, and to love the name of Yahweh,
To be His [a]slaves, every one who (B)keeps from profaning the sabbath
And takes hold of My covenant,

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 56:6 Or servants

Keeping the Sabbath

13 “If because of the sabbath, you (A)turn your foot
From doing your own desire on My holy day,
And call the sabbath a (B)delight, the holy day of Yahweh honorable,
And honor it, by not doing your (C)own ways,
By not finding your own desire
And (D)speaking your own word,

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21 Thus says Yahweh, “(A)Take care of yourselves, and (B)do not carry any load on the sabbath day or bring anything in through the gates of Jerusalem. 22 You shall not bring a load out of your houses on the sabbath day (C)nor do any work, but keep the sabbath day holy, as I (D)commanded your fathers.

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12 And I also gave them My sabbaths to be a (A)sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.

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20 (A)Keep My sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.’

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