Deuteronomy 5:12
New International Version
“Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

New Living Translation
“Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

English Standard Version
“‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

Berean Standard Bible
Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

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

New King James Version
‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

New American Standard Bible
‘Keep the Sabbath day to treat it as holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

NASB 1995
‘Observe the sabbath day to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

NASB 1977
‘Observe the sabbath day to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

Legacy Standard Bible
‘Observe the sabbath day to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.

Amplified Bible
‘Observe the Sabbath day to keep it holy (set apart, dedicated to God), as the LORD your God commanded you.

Christian Standard Bible
Be careful to remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy as the LORD your God has commanded you.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Be careful to remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy as the LORD your God has commanded you.

American Standard Version
Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Keep the day of the Sabbath and hallow it as LORD JEHOVAH your God commanded you.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God commanded thee.

Contemporary English Version
Show respect for the Sabbath Day--it belongs to me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

English Revised Version
Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD thy God commanded thee.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"Observe the day of worship as a holy day. This is what the LORD your God has commanded you.

Good News Translation
"'Observe the Sabbath and keep it holy, as I, the LORD your God, have commanded you.

International Standard Version
"'You are to keep the Sabbath day holy, just as the LORD your God commanded.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD thy God commanded thee.

Literal Standard Version
Observe the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as your God YHWH has commanded you;

Majority Standard Bible
Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

New American Bible
Observe the sabbath day—keep it holy, as the LORD, your God, commanded you.

NET Bible
Be careful to observe the Sabbath day just as the LORD your God has commanded you.

New Revised Standard Version
Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

New Heart English Bible
"Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Keep the sabbath-day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.

World English Bible
“Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.

Young's Literal Translation
'Observe the day of the sabbath -- to sanctify it, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee;

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Context
The Ten Commandments
11You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain. 12Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you. 13Six days you shall labor and do all your work,…

Cross References
Mark 2:27
Then Jesus declared, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

Exodus 16:23
He told them, "This is what the LORD has said: 'Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.'"

Exodus 20:8
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

Exodus 31:13
"Tell the Israelites, 'Surely you must keep My Sabbaths, for this will be a sign between Me and you for the generations to come, so that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

Exodus 31:15
For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.

Deuteronomy 5:13
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

Nehemiah 13:15
In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.


Treasury of Scripture

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

Exodus 20:8-11
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy…

Isaiah 56:6
Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;

Isaiah 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, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

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(12-15) The language of this commandment is identical with the form it takes in Exodus only so far as the 13th and 14th verses are concerned; and even here the special mention of the ox and the ass is confined to Deuteronomy. The introduction and the close of the command, which gives the reason for it, are different here. The reason drawn from the creation is not mentioned; the reason drawn from the exodus is. This fact illustrates the observation that in Deuteronomy we find "the Gospel of the Pentateuch." If for the exodus of Israel we substitute here "the exodus of Christ, which He accomplished at Jerusalem," not so much by His death as by His resurrection, we have a reason for keeping not the Sabbath, but the Lord's Day.

It is worth while to observe that the Israelites had express authority given them to enforce the observance of the Sabbath upon Gentiles, when these could be regarded as "strangers within their gates." The words Isaiah 56:6 seem to show that "strangers" who "took hold of the covenant" of Jehovah were expected to "keep His sabbath from polluting it." For an example of its enforcement, see Nehemiah 13:16; Nehemiah 13:20-21.

If any difficulty is felt at the variation of the form of the commandment from that which we have in Exodus, it should be observed, first, that the command itself is not altered, as appears by Deuteronomy 5:13-14, compared with Exodus 20:9-10; and secondly, that in this exhortation Moses calls Israel to hear the statutes and judgments which he, as their mediator, commands them, and that he is free to enforce them by such reasons as may seem to him best. . . .

Verses 12-14. - Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. This phraseology implies that the Sabbath institute was already well known to the people of Israel; so that this commandment was intended, not to enact a new observance, but to enforce the continuance of an observance which had come down to them from earlier times. The Sabbath was to be kept by being sanctified. This means that it was to be consecrated to God to be used as he had appointed. The sanctification of any object "always goes back to an act of the Divine will, to Divine election and institution. In other words, it is always a state in which the creature [or institute] is bound to God by the appointment of God himself, which is expressed by קֹדֶשׁ הִקְדִישׁ קִדֵּשׁ קָדושׁ, XXX" (Oehler, 'Theology of the Old Testament,' vol. 1. p. 155). The sanctification of the Sabbath, accordingly, was the consecration of that day to the Lord, to be observed as he had enjoined, that is, as a day of rest from all servile work and ordinary occupations. Among the Jews, those who were careful to keep this law "rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment" (Luke 23:56). Not, however, in mere indolence and idle vacancy, unworthy of a man. Not thus could the day be sanctified to the Lord. Man had to "release his soul and body from all their burdens, with all the professions and pursuits of ordinary life, only in order to gather himself together again in God with greater purity and fewer disturbing elements, and renew in him the might of his own better powers" (Ewald, 'Antiquities of Israel,' p. 102). In the Sabbath institute, therefore, lies the basis of spiritual worship and pious service in Israel.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Remember
שָׁמ֣֛וֹר (šā·mō·wr)
Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

the Sabbath
הַשַׁבָּ֖֨ת‪‬‪‬ (haš·šab·bāṯ)
Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 7676: Intermission, the Sabbath

day
י֥וֹם֩ (yō·wm)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3117: A day

by keeping it holy,
לְקַדְּשׁ֑֜וֹ (lə·qad·də·šōw)
Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6942: To be set apart or consecrated

as
כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר (ka·’ă·šer)
Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative
Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

the LORD
יְהוָ֥֣ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

your God
אֱלֹהֶֽ֗יךָ‪‬ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

has commanded you.
צִוְּךָ֖֣ ׀ (ṣiw·wə·ḵā)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
Strong's 6680: To lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command, order


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