Leviticus 23:3
Six days thou shalt do work, but on the seventh day is the rest of the Sabbath; a holy convocation, (in it) you shall do no work. It is a Sabbath before the Lord in all your dwellings.
Targum Onkelos
In The King James Version
In Context
4These are the festivals of the Lord, holy convocations which you shall convoke in their seasons.
Cross References
Exodus 16:23And be said to them, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy Shabbath before the Lord. That which you prepare by baking, bake, and that which you prepare by boiling, boil, and all the remainder lay up to you, a store for the morning.
Exodus 16:30And the people reposed on the seventh day.
Exodus 23:12Six days shalt thou do thy work, and in the seventh day have rest, that thy ox and thy ass may rest, and the son of thine handmaid and thy sojourner may be quiet.
Exodus 34:21Six days thou shalt labour, and on the seventh day rest; in sowing (time) and in reaping thou shalt rest.
Leviticus 19:3A man shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep the day of My Sabbath: I am the Lord your God.
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 →