Exodus 20:8
Good News Translation
"Observe the Sabbath and keep it holy.

New Revised Standard Version
Remember the sabbath day, and keep it holy.

Contemporary English Version
Remember that the Sabbath Day belongs to me.

New American Bible
Remember the sabbath day—keep it holy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.

Exodus 16:23-30 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 31:13,14 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. . . .

Genesis 2:3 And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Leviticus 19:3 Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 23:3 Six days shall ye do work: the seventh day, because it is the rest of the sabbath, shall be called holy. You shall do no work on that day: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your habitations.

Isaiah 56:4-6 For thus saith the Lord to the eunuchs, They that shall keep my sabbaths, and shall choose the things that please me, and shall hold fast my covenant: . . .

Context
The Ten Commandments
7Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain. 8Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.9Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.…
Cross References
Genesis 2:2
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

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 23:12
Six days thou shalt work: the seventh day thou shalt cease, that thy ox and thy ass may rest: and the son of thy handmaid and the stranger may be refreshed.

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.

Leviticus 19:3
Let every one fear his father, and his mother. Keep my sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:2
Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.

Deuteronomy 5:12
Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

Nehemiah 9:14
Thou madest known to them thy holy sabbath, and didst prescribe to them commandments, and ceremonies, and the law by the hand of Moses thy servant.

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.

Isaiah 56:2
Blessed is the man that doth this, and the son of man that shall lay hold on this: that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, that keepeth his hands from doing any evil.

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.

Jeremiah 17:24
And it shall come to pass: if you will hearken to me, saith the Lord, to bring in no burdens by the gates of this city on the sabbath day: and if you will sanctify the sabbath day, to do no work therein:

Exodus 20:7
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