Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
Profane
General references
Bible References
On
Numbers 28:9
'And on the sabbath-day, two lambs, sons of a year, perfect ones, and two-tenth deals of flour, a present, mixed with oil, and its libation;
John 7:22
because of this, Moses hath given you the circumcision -- not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers -- and on a sabbath ye circumcise a man;
Profane
Nehemiah 13:17
And I strive with the freemen of Judah, and say to them, 'What is this evil thing that ye are doing, and polluting the sabbath-day?
Ezekiel 24:21
Say to the house of Israel: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am polluting My sanctuary, The excellency of your strength, The desire of your eyes, and the pitied of your soul, And your sons and your daughters whom ye have left, by sword they do fall.
General references
Leviticus 24:8
On each sabbath-day he arrangeth it before Jehovah continually, from the sons of Israel -- a covenant age-during;