Deuteronomy 5:12 BSB

Deuteronomy 5:12

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

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

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Commentary

1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it,.... Or observe it, by setting it apart as a time of natural rest, and for the performance of holy and religious exercises; see Exo 20:8, where the phrase is a little varied, "remember the sabbath day to keep it holy"; it having been instituted before: as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee; not at Sinai only, for the same might then have been observed of all the rest of the commands, but before the giving of the law, at the first of the manna; see Exo 16:23.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
שָׁמ֣֛וֹר	sha.Mor	keep	H8104 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
י֥וֹם֩	yom	[the] day of	H3117 →
הַשַּׁבָּ֖֨ת	ha.sha.Bat	the sabbath	H7676 →
לְקַדְּשׁ֑֜וֹ	le.ka.de.Sho	to set apart as holy it	H6942 →
כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר	ka.'a.Sher	just as	H834 →
צִוְּךָ֖֣׀	tzi.ve.Kha	he commanded you	H6680 →
יְהוָ֥֣ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֱלֹהֶֽ֗יךָ׃	'e.lo.Hei.kha	God your	H430 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 58:13
If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor…
leads to
- Jeremiah 17:21–27
  This is what the LORD says: Take heed for yourselves; do not carry a load or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.
- Psalms 92:1–2
  It is good to praise the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High,
- Isaiah 56:2–6
  Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
- Nehemiah 13:15–22
  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…
- Revelation 1:10
  On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
Through
Isaiah 56:6
And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants—all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who…
leads to
- Jeremiah 50:5
  They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.
- Isaiah 56:2–4
  Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
- Isaiah 58:13
  If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor…

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02Original language & word study

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06About Deuteronomy

Where the connections lead

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The walk

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