Deuteronomy 5:12
Observe the day of the Sabbath, so that you may sanctify it, just as the Lord your God has instructed you.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
In Context
13For six days, you shall labor and do all your work.
Cross References
Exodus 20:8Remember that you are to sanctify the day of the Sabbath.
Isaiah 58:13If you restrain your foot on the Sabbath, from doing your own will on my holy day, and if you call the Sabbath delightful, and the Holy of the Lord glorious, and if you glorify him, while you do not act according to your own ways, and your own will is not found, not even to speak a word,
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 5:7-23
6 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me. 8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: 9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them… Read the whole commentary →