Ezekiel 20:20
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New International Version (©2011)
Keep my Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God."

New Living Translation (©2007)
and keep my Sabbath days holy, for they are a sign to remind you that I am the LORD your God.'

English Standard Version (©2001)
and keep my Sabbaths holy that they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
'Sanctify My sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.'

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Keep My Sabbaths holy, and they will be a sign between Me and you, so you may know that I am Yahweh your God."

International Standard Version (©2012)
You are to make my Sabbaths holy, and you are to let them serve as a sign between you and me, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.'"

NET Bible (©2006)
Treat my Sabbaths as holy and they will be a reminder of our relationship, and then you will know that I am the LORD your God."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Set apart certain holy days to worship me. This will be a sign between me and you so that you will know that I am the LORD your God."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.

American King James Version
And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.

American Standard Version
and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And sanctify my sabbaths, that they may be a sign between me and you: and that you may know that I am the Lord your God.

Darby Bible Translation
and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God.

English Revised Version
and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.

Webster's Bible Translation
And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.

World English Bible
and make my Sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.

Young's Literal Translation
And My sabbaths sanctify, And they have been for a sign between Me and you, To know that I, Jehovah, am your God.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

20:10-26. The history of Israel in the wilderness is referred to in the new Testament as well as in the Old, for warning. God did great things for them. He gave them the law, and revived the ancient keeping of the sabbath day. Sabbaths are privileges; they are signs of our being his people. If we do the duty of the day, we shall find, to our comfort, it is the Lord that makes us holy, that is, truly happy, here; and prepares us to be happy, that is, perfectly holy, hereafter. The Israelites rebelled, and were left to the judgments they brought upon themselves. God sometimes makes sin to be its own punishment, yet he is not the Author of sin: there needs no more to make men miserable, than to give them up to their own evil desires and passions.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And hallow my sabbaths,.... Or keep them holy, by abstaining from worldly business on them; by observing all the duties of religion, private and public, to be performed on such days:

and they shall be a sign between me and you; of present and future good; See Gill on Ezekiel 20:12;

that ye may know that I am the Lord your God; not only acknowledge him to be the Lord their God, by observing his laws, and sanctifying his sabbaths; but also have a larger experience of his grace and goodness, as their covenant God.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

20. (Jer 17:22).

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Rebellion in the Desert
19I am the LORD your God; walk in my statutes, and keep my judgments, and do them; 20And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God. 21Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness. …

Exodus 31:13 "Say to the Israelites, 'You must observe my Sabbaths. This will be a sign between me and you for the generations to come, so you may know that I am the LORD, who makes you holy.
Isaiah 56:2 Blessed is the one who does this-- the person who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without desecrating it, and keeps their hands from doing any evil."
Jeremiah 17:22 Do not bring a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors.
Jeremiah 17:24 But if you are careful to obey me, declares the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy by not doing any work on it,
Ezekiel 20:12 Also I gave them my Sabbaths as a sign between us, so they would know that I the LORD made them holy.
Ezekiel 20:26 I defiled them through their gifts--the sacrifice of every firstborn--that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the LORD.'
Ezekiel 44:24 "'In any dispute, the priests are to serve as judges and decide it according to my ordinances. They are to keep my laws and my decrees for all my appointed festivals, and they are to keep my Sabbaths holy.