Exodus 31:12-18
1599 Geneva Bible
12 ¶ Afterward the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, and say, [a]Notwithstanding keep ye my Sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you in your generations, that ye may know that I the Lord do sanctify you.
14 (A)Ye shall therefore keep the [b]Sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that defileth it, shall die the death: therefore whosoever worketh therein, the same person shall be even cut off from among his people.
15 Six days shall men work, but in the seventh day is the Sabbath of the holy rest to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the Sabbath day, shall die the death.
16 Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, that they may observe the [c]rest throughout their generations for an everlasting Covenant.
17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever: (B)for in six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth, and in the seventh day [d]he ceased and rested.
18 Thus (when the Lord had made an end of communing with Moses upon mount Sinai) (C)he gave him two Tables [e]of the Testimony, even tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
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- Exodus 31:13 Though I command these works to be done, yet will I not that you break my Sabbath days.
- Exodus 31:14 God repeateth this point because the whole keeping of the law standeth in the true use of the Sabbath, which is to cease from our works, and to obey the will of God.
- Exodus 31:16 Or, Sabbath.
- Exodus 31:17 From creating his creatures, but not from governing and preserving them.
- Exodus 31:18 Whereby he declared his will to his people.
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