Deuteronomy 5:12

Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord your God commanded you.

LXX2012 (US English)

In The King James Version

Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.

In Context

11You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord your God will certainly not acquit him that takes his name in vain.

13Six days you shall work, and you shall do all your works;

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Cross References

Exodus 20:8Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy.

Isaiah 58:13If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, so as not to do your + 58:13 Gr. pleasures. pleasure on the holy days, and shall call the sabbaths delightful, holy to God; if you shall not lift up your foot to work, nor speak a word in anger out of your mouth,

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 →

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