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.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 2:2And 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 16:26Gather it six days: but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord, therefore it shall not be found.
Exodus 31:14Keep you my sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that shall profane it, shall be put to death: he that shall do my work in it, his soul shall perish out of the midst of his people.
Exodus 34:21Six days shalt thou work, the seventh day thou shalt cease to plough, and to reap.
Leviticus 23:3Six 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.
Numbers 15:32And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and had found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day,
Matthew Henry on Exodus 31:13-18
The Observance of the Sabbath. ( b. c. 1491.) 12 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. 14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 15 Six… Read the whole commentary →