² And ^(A)on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. ³ So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation.

The Creation of Man and Woman

⁵ When no ^(C)bush of the field^[a] was yet in the land^[b] and no small plant of the field had yet sprung up—for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the land, and there was no man ^(D)to work the ground, ⁶ and a mist^[c] was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground— ⁷ then the Lord God formed the man of ^(E)dust from the ground and ^(F)breathed into his ^(G)nostrils the breath of life, and ^(H)the man became a living creature. ⁸ And the Lord God planted a ^(I)garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed. ⁹ And out of the ground the Lord God made to spring up every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. ^(J)The tree of life was in the midst of the garden, ^(K)and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

¹⁰ A river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and there it divided and became four rivers. ¹¹ The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of ^(L)Havilah, where there is gold.

The Sabbath

¹² And the Lord said to Moses, 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. ¹⁴ You 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. ^15 (B)Six days shall work be done, but ^(C)the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. ^(D)Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death. ¹⁶ Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever. ^17 (E)It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that ^(F)in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and ^(G)on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’”

¹⁸ And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, the ^(H)two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with ^(I)the finger of God.

The Sabbath

^3 (A)“Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places.

¹² “‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you.

^11 (A)I gave them my statutes and made known to them my rules, ^(B)by which, if a person does them, he shall live. ¹² Moreover, I gave them ^(C)my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, ^(D)that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them. ^13 (E)But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. ^(F)They did not walk in my statutes but rejected my rules, by which, if a person does them, he shall live; ^(G)and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned.

^(H)“Then I said I would pour out my wrath upon them in the wilderness, to make a full end of them. ¹⁴ But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, ^(I)in whose sight I had brought them out. ¹⁵ Moreover, ^(J)I swore to them in the wilderness ^(K)that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them, a land ^(L)flowing with milk and honey, ^(M)the most glorious of all lands, ¹⁶ because they rejected my rules and did not walk in my statutes, and profaned my Sabbaths; ^(N)for their heart went after their idols. ¹⁷ Nevertheless, ^(O)my eye spared them, and I did not destroy them or ^(P)make a full end of them in the wilderness.

¹⁸ “And I said to ^(Q)their children in the wilderness, ‘Do not walk ^(R)in the statutes of your fathers, nor keep their rules, ^(S)nor defile yourselves with their idols. ^19 (T)I am the Lord your God; ^(U)walk in my statutes, and be careful to obey my rules, ²⁰ and ^(V)keep my Sabbaths holy that ^(W)they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’ ^21 (X)But the children ^(Y)rebelled against me. ^(Z)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.

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

^19 (A)Therefore whoever relaxes ^(B)one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least ^(C)in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great ^(D)in the kingdom of heaven.

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

Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

^16 (A)And he came to ^(B)Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And ^(C)as was his custom, ^(D)he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up ^(E)to read.