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Exodus 20:8

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

KJV

Memento ut diem sabbati sanctifices.

Vulgate

Μνήσθητι τὴν ἡμέραν τῶν σαββάτων ἁγιάζειν αὐτήν·

LXX

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

ASV

זָכ֛וֹר אֶת י֥וֹם הַ/שַּׁבָּ֖ת לְ/קַדְּשֽׁ/וֹ

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

5 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
וֹ
v
verb · 172×
זְכָר
zkr
verb · 231×
י
y
noun · 111×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×

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Historic Christian voices

9 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2056The word "Decalogue" means literally "ten words."11 God revealed these "ten words" to his people on the holy mountain. They were written "with the finger of God,"12 unlike the other commandments written by Moses.13 They are pre-eminently the words of God. They are handed on to us in the books of Exodus 14 and Deuteronomy.15 Beginning with the Old Testament, the sacred books ref…
Further, also, it is written concerning the Sabbath in the Decalogue which the Lord spoke, face to face, to Moses on Mount Sinai, "And sanctify the Sabbath of the Lord with clean hands and a pure heart."
Thou shalt sanctify the holy day. The word holy day is rendered from the Hebrew word Sabbath, which properly signifies to rest, that is, to abstain from labor. We keep holy days not for the sake of intelligent and learned Christians, for they have no need of it. We keep them, first, for the sake of bodily need, that nature may rest and be refreshed; secondly and chiefly, that p…
Thou shalt sanctify the holy day. What does this mean? We should fear and love God that we may not despise preaching and His Word, but hold it sacred, and gladly hear and learn it.
Q. What does the Lord say in his law? A. God spoke all these words: I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol. You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God. Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Honor your father and your mother. You …

Cross-references

  • Amos 8:5 — Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
  • Deut 5:12 — Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
  • Exod 13:3 — And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand the LORD brought you out from this place: there shall no leaven
  • Exod 16:23 — And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that whi
  • Exod 16:23 — And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that whi
  • Exod 23:12 — Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
  • Exod 23:12 — Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
  • Exod 31:13 — Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sa
  • Exod 31:13 — Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sa
  • Exod 31:15 — Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
  • Ezek 20:12 — Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
  • Gen 2:2 — And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
  • Gen 2:3 — And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
  • Gen 2:3 — And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
  • Isa 56:2 — Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
  • Isa 56:4 — For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
  • Isa 58:13 — If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, n
  • Jer 17:22 — Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
  • Lev 19:3 — Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
  • Lev 19:3 — Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
  • Lev 19:30 — Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
  • Lev 19:30 — Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
  • Lev 23:3 — 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.
  • Lev 23:3 — 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.
  • Lev 26:2 — Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
  • Neh 9:14 — And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
  • Neh 13:15 — In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Je