40 Bible Verses about Sabbath, In Ot

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Genesis 2:3

And God will praise the seventh day, and will consecrate it, because in it he ceased from all his works which God formed to make.

Exodus 20:8-11

Remember the day of the Sabbath to consecrate it Six days thou shalt work and do all thy service: And the seventh day the Sabbath to Jehovah thy God: thou shall do no service, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy servant, and thy maid, and thy cattle, and thy stranger which is in thy gates.read more.
For six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all which is in them, and he will rest in the seventh day: for this Jehovah praised the seventh day and consecrated it.

Genesis 2:2

And God will complete in the seventh day his work which he made, and he will rest in the seventh day from all his work which he made.

Exodus 35:2

Six days thou shalt do work and in the seventh day a holy cessation, a cessation to Jehovah: all doing work in it shall die.

Deuteronomy 5:12-15

Watch the day of the Sabbath to consecrate it, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee. Six days thou shalt work and do all thy work, And the seventh day, the Sabbath to Jehovah thy God: thou shalt not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy servant, and thy maid, and thine ox, and thine ass, and all thy cattle, and thy stranger who is in thy gates; so that thy servant and thy maid shall rest like thyself.read more.
And remember that thou wert a servant in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God brought thee out from there by a strong hand and by an extended arm: for this, Jehovah thy God commanded thee to do the day of the Sabbath.

Genesis 8:4

And the ark shall rest in the seventh month in the seventeenth day of the month upon the mountains of Ararat

2 Samuel 7:1

And it will be when the king sat in his house, and Jehovah gave rest to him from round about from all his enemies.

Psalm 95:10-11

Forty years I shall loathe to the generation, and saying, A people they wandering in heart, and they knew not my ways: For I sware in mine anger if they shall come in to my rest

Exodus 31:17

Between me and between the sons of Israel it is a sign forever: for six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, and in the seventh day he rested and he will be refreshed.

Deuteronomy 5:12-14

Watch the day of the Sabbath to consecrate it, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee. Six days thou shalt work and do all thy work, And the seventh day, the Sabbath to Jehovah thy God: thou shalt not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy servant, and thy maid, and thine ox, and thine ass, and all thy cattle, and thy stranger who is in thy gates; so that thy servant and thy maid shall rest like thyself.

Leviticus 23:3

Six days shall work be done; the seventh day a Sabbath of rest, a holy calling: ye shall not do any work: it is a Sabbath to Jehovah in all your dwellings.

Exodus 35:3

Ye shall not burn a fire in all your dwellings in the day of the rest

Leviticus 23:38

Besides the Sabbaths of Jehovah, and besides your gifts, and besides all your vows, and besides all your voluntary gifts which ye shall give to Jehovah.

Isaiah 56:2

Happy the man that shall do this, and the son of man that shall lay hold upon it; watching the Sabbath from defiling it, and watching his hand from doing all evil.

Isaiah 58:13

If thou shalt turn back thy foot from the Sabbath, doing thy delight in my holy day; and thou calledst to the Sabbath a delight for the holy of Jehovah, being honored; and thou honoredst him from doing thy ways, from finding thy delight, and speaking the word.

2 Kings 4:23

And he will say, Wherefore goest thou to him this day? not new moon, and not Sabbath. And she will say, Peace.

Isaiah 1:13

Ye shall not add to bring gifts of iniquity; incense, this an abomination to me; the new moon and the Sabbath, the calling of the assembly; I shall not be able to bear vanity and restraining.

Ezekiel 46:3

And the people of the land worshiped at the door of that gate in the Sabbaths and in the new moons, before Jehovah.

Hosea 2:11

And I caused all her rejoicing to cease, her festival and her new moon, and her Sabbath and all her appointment

Amos 8:5

Saying, When will the month pass through, and we will sell grain? and the Sabbath, and we will open wheat to diminish the ephah, and to enlarge the shekel, and to make crooked the balance of deceit?

Exodus 16:27-28

And it will be in the seventh day, and they will go forth from the people to gather, and they found not And Jehovah will say to Moses, How long refused ye to watch my commands and my law?

Numbers 15:32

And the sons of Israel shall be in the desert, and they shall find a man gathering wood in the day of the Sabbath.

Nehemiah 13:15-18

In those days I saw in Judah those treading the wine-presses in the Sabbath, and bringing in the sheaves, and loading upon the asses; and also wine, grapes, and figs, and every burden, and bringing into Jerusalem in the day of the Sabbath: and I shall testify in the day of their selling provision. And the Tyrians sat in it, bringing in fish and every selling, and selling in the Sabbath to the sons of Judah, and in Jerusalem. And I shall contend with the nobles of Judah, and say to them, What this evil word that ye are doing, and profaning the day of the Sabbath?read more.
Did not your fathers thus, and our God will bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? and ye are adding burning upon Israel to profane the Sabbath.

Nehemiah 10:31

And the people of the land bringing wares and all grain in the day of the Sabbath to sell, we will not take from them in the Sabbath and in the holy day: and we will leave the seventh year, and the debt of every hand.

Jeremiah 17:21

Thus said Jehovah: Watch ye in your souls, and ye shall not lift up a lifting up in the day of the Sabbath, and bring in by the gates of Jerusalem.

Exodus 31:14

And watch ye the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. He profaning it, dying, shall die; for all doing work in it, and that soul shall be cut off from the midst of his people.

Numbers 15:35

And Jehovah will say to Moses, Dying, the man shall die: all the assembly stoned him with stones without the camp.

Jeremiah 17:27

And if ye will not hear to me to consecrate the day of the Sabbath, not to lift up a burden, and coming into the gates of Jerusalem in the day of the Sabbath; and I kindled a fire in her gates and it consumed the palaces of Jerusalem and it shall not be quenched.

Ezekiel 20:13

And the house of Israel will rebel against me fit the desert: in my laws they went not, and my judgments they rejected, which a man shall do them and he lived in them: and my Sabbaths they profaned greatly and saying, To pour out my wrath upon them in the desert to finish them.'

Ezekiel 22:8

Thou didst despise my holy place, and thou didst profane my Sabbaths

Leviticus 24:8

In the day of the Sabbath, in the day of the Sabbath he shall arrange it before Jehovah always, from the sons of Israel, a covenant forever.

1 Chronicles 9:32

And from the sons of the Kohathites, from their brethren over the bread of arrangement to prepare the Sabbath, Sabbath.

Numbers 28:9-10

And in the day of the Sabbath, two blameless lambs, sons of a year, and two tenths of fine flour, a gift mingled with oil, and its libation: A burnt-offering of the Sabbath in its Sabbath, upon the burnt-offering of continuance, and its libation.

1 Chronicles 23:31

And to bring up for all burnt-offerings to Jehovah for the Sabbaths, for the new moons, and for the appointments by number, according to the judgment upon them, always before Jehovah

2 Chronicles 2:4

Behold, I build a house to the name of Jehovah my God, to consecrate to him, to burn incense before him, incense of spices, and the arrangement always, and the burnt-offerings for morning and for evening, for the Sabbaths and for the new moons, and for the appointments of Jehovah our God. Forever this upon Israel.

Ezekiel 46:4

And the burnt-offering which the prince shall bring near to Jehovah in the day of the Sabbath, six blameless lambs, and a blameless ram.

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