Leviticus 23:3
Six days shalt thou do works, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath; a rest, a holy convocation to the Lord: thou shalt not do any work, it is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
4These are the feasts to the Lord, holy convocations, which ye shall call in their seasons.
Cross References
Exodus 16:23And Moses said to them, Is not this the word which the Lord spoke? Tomorrow is the Sabbath, a holy rest to the Lord: bake that ye will bake, and seethe that ye will seethe, and all that is over leave to be laid by for the morrow.
Exodus 16:30And the people kept Sabbath on the seventh day.
Exodus 23:12Six days shalt thou do thy works, and on the seventh day there shall be rest, that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and that the son of thy maidservant and the stranger may be refreshed.
Exodus 34:21Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: there shall be rest in seedtime and harvest.
Leviticus 19:3Let every one of you reverence his father and his mother; and ye shall keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
Isaiah 56:2Blessed is the man that does these things, and the man that holds by them, and keeps the Sabbaths from profaning them, and keeps his hands from doing unrighteousness.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 23:2-4
Sundry Feasts. ( b. c. 1490.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts of the Lord , which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts. 3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein : it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your dwellings. Here is, I. A general account of the holy times which God appointed ( v. 2 ), and it is only his… Read the whole commentary →