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Deuteronomy 5:12 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: King James Version

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

Deuteronomy 5:12

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10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

11 Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

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

13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:

14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

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Related Verses

Exodus 20:8-11

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"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy."

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Genesis 2:3

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"And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made."

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Isaiah 58:13

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"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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Isaiah 56:6

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"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;"

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Exodus 34:21

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"Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest."

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Exodus 35:2

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"Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death."

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From This Chapter

Deuteronomy 5:1

"And Moses called all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and judgments which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and keep, and do them."

Deuteronomy 5:2

"The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb."

Deuteronomy 5:3

"The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day."

Deuteronomy 5:4

"The LORD talked with you face to face in the mount out of the midst of the fire,"

Deuteronomy 5:5

"(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word of the LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,"

Deuteronomy 5:6

"I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage."

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