Leviticus 23:3
You may work for six days, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You must do no work because it is a Sabbath for Yahweh in all the places where you live.
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Exodus 16:23He said to them, “This is what Yahweh has said: 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath in Yahweh's honor. Bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. All that remains over, set it aside for yourselves until morning.'”
Exodus 16:30So the people rested on the seventh day.
Exodus 23:12During six days you will do your work, but on the seventh day you must rest. Do this so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and so that your female slave's son and any foreigner may rest and be refreshed.
Exodus 34:21You may work for six days, but on the seventh day you must rest. Even at plowing time and in harvest, you must rest.
Leviticus 19:3Everyone must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.
Isaiah 56:2Blessed is the man that does this, and who holds it tightly. 1 He observes the Sabbath, not defiling it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.” 1
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 →