Exodus 20:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day.

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  • Exod 31:13-16 : 13 Say to the children of Israel that they are to keep my Sabbaths; for the Sabbath day is a sign between me and you through all your generations; so that you may see that I am the Lord who makes you holy. 14 So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off from his people. 15 Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death. 16 And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy, from generation to generation, by an eternal agreement.
  • Lev 19:3 : 3 Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
  • Lev 26:2 : 2 Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.
  • Gen 2:3 : 3 And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.
  • Lev 19:30 : 30 Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord.
  • Lev 23:3 : 3 On six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a special day of rest, a time for worship; you may do no sort of work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you may be living.
  • Exod 16:23-30 : 23 And he said, This is what the Lord has said, Tomorrow is a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord: what has to be cooked may be cooked; and what is over, put on one side to be kept till the morning. 24 And they kept it till the morning as Moses had said: and no smell came from it, and it had no worms. 25 And Moses said, Make your meal today of what you have, for this day is a Sabbath to the Lord: today you will not get any in the fields. 26 For six days you will get it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any. 27 But still on the seventh day some of the people went out to get it, and there was not any. 28 And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you go against my orders and my laws? 29 See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives you on the sixth day bread enough for two days; let every man keep where he is; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day. 30 So the people took their rest on the seventh day.
  • Exod 23:12 : 12 For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.
  • Isa 56:4-6 : 4 For the Lord says, As for the unsexed who keep my Sabbaths, and give their hearts to pleasing me, and keep their agreement with me: 5 I will give to them in my house, and inside my walls, a place and a name better than that of sons and daughters; I will give them an eternal name which will not be cut off. 6 And as for those from a strange country, who are joined to the Lord, to give worship to him and honour to his name, to be his servants, even everyone who keeps the Sabbath holy, and keeps his agreement with me:

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Deut 5:11-15
    5 verses
    87%

    11You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged as a sinner by the Lord.

    12Keep the Sabbath day as a holy day, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God.

    13On six days do all your work:

    14But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you.

    15And keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God took you out of that land by his strong hand and his stretched-out arm: for this reason the Lord has given you orders to keep the Sabbath day.

  • Exod 20:9-16
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    86%

    9On six days do all your work:

    10But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you:

    11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this reason the Lord has given his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy.

    12Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

    13Do not put anyone to death without cause.

    14Do not be false to the married relation.

    15Do not take the property of another.

    16Do not give false witness against your neighbour.

  • Exod 20:7
    83%

    7You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged a sinner by the Lord

  • Exod 35:2-3
    2 verses
    79%

    2Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death.

    3No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day.

  • Lev 26:2
    78%

    2Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.

  • Lev 23:3
    78%

    3On six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a special day of rest, a time for worship; you may do no sort of work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you may be living.

  • Lev 19:30
    78%

    30Keep my Sabbaths and have respect for my holy place: I am the Lord.

  • Exod 31:13-17
    5 verses
    78%

    13Say to the children of Israel that they are to keep my Sabbaths; for the Sabbath day is a sign between me and you through all your generations; so that you may see that I am the Lord who makes you holy.

    14So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off from his people.

    15Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.

    16And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy, from generation to generation, by an eternal agreement.

    17It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; because in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he took his rest and had pleasure in it.

  • Ezek 20:20
    78%

    20And keep my Sabbaths holy; and they will be a sign between me and you so that it may be clear to you that I am the Lord your God.

  • Exod 34:21
    77%

    21Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.

  • Jer 17:21-22
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    77%

    21This is what the Lord has said: See to yourselves, that you take up no weight on the Sabbath day, or take it in through the doors of Jerusalem;

    22And take no weight out of your houses on the Sabbath day, or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I gave orders to your fathers;

  • Ezek 22:8
    77%

    8You have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean.

  • Lev 20:8
    77%

    8And keep my rules and do them: I am the Lord, who make you holy.

  • Deut 16:8
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    8For six days let your food be unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there is to be a holy meeting to the Lord your God; no work is to be done.

  • Exod 20:3-4
    2 verses
    75%

    3You are to have no other gods but me.

    4You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:

  • Lev 19:3
    75%

    3Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

  • Num 28:25
    75%

    25Then on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.

  • Deut 5:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7You are to have no other gods but me.

    8You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth:

  • Deut 8:11
    74%

    11Then take care that you are not turned away from the Lord your God and from keeping his orders and decisions and laws which I give you this day:

  • Isa 58:13
    74%

    13If you keep the Sabbath with care, not doing your business on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after your pleasure, or saying unholy words;

  • Lev 19:12
    74%

    12And do not take an oath in my name falsely, putting shame on the name of your God: I am the Lord.

  • Matt 12:8
    73%

    8For the Son of man is lord of the Sabbath.

  • Num 29:35
    73%

    35On the eighth day let there be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work;

  • Exod 16:29-30
    2 verses
    73%

    29See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives you on the sixth day bread enough for two days; let every man keep where he is; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

    30So the people took their rest on the seventh day.

  • Gen 2:3
    73%

    3And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.

  • Exod 23:12
    73%

    12For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.

  • Lev 23:28
    73%

    28And on that day you may do no sort of work, for it is a day of taking away sin, to make you clean before the Lord your God.

  • Isa 56:2
    73%

    2Happy is the man who does this, and the son of man whose behaviour is so ordered; who keeps the Sabbath holy, and his hand from doing any evil.

  • Lev 22:31
    73%

    31So then, keep my orders and do them: I am the Lord.

  • Num 15:40
    72%

    40And that you may keep in mind all my orders and do them and be holy to your God.