Deuteronomy 5:12
Good News Translation
"'Observe the Sabbath and keep it holy, as I, the LORD your God, have commanded you.

New Revised Standard Version
Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

Contemporary English Version
Show respect for the Sabbath Day--it belongs to me.

New American Bible
Observe the sabbath day—keep it holy, as the LORD, your God, commanded you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

Exodus 20:8-11 Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day. . . .

Isaiah 56:6 And the children of the stranger that adhere to the Lord, to worship him, and to love his name, to be his servants: every one that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and that holdeth fast my covenant:

Isaiah 58:13 If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy own will in my holy day, and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of the Lord glorious, and glorify him, while thou dost not thy own ways, and thy own will is not found, to speak a word:

Context
The Ten Commandments
11Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for he shall not be unpunished that taketh his name upon a vain thing. 12Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.13Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.…
Cross References
Mark 2:27
And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

Exodus 16:23
And he said to them: This is what the Lord hath spoken: To morrow is the rest of the sabbath sanctified to the Lord. Whatsoever work is to be done, do it; and the meats that are to be dressed, dress them; and whatsoever shall remain, lay it up until the morning.

Exodus 20:8
Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.

Exodus 31:13
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: See that you keep my sabbath; because it is a sign between me and you in your generations that you may know that I am the Lord, who sanctify you.

Exodus 31:15
Six days shall you do work: in the seventh day is the sabbath, the rest holy to the Lord. Every one that shall do any work on this day, shall die.

Deuteronomy 5:13
Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.

Nehemiah 13:15
In those days I saw in Juda some treading the presses on the sabbath, and carrying sheaves, and lading asses with wine, and grapes, and figs, and all manner of burthens, and bringing them into Jerusalem on the sabbath day. And I charged them that they should sell on a day on which it was lawful to sell.

Jeremiah 17:22
And do not bring burdens out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work: sanctify the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

Deuteronomy 5:11
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