Deuteronomy 5:12

Easy-to-Read Version

‘You must keep the Sabbath a special day like the Lord your God commanded.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
"Observe the day of Shabbat, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

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

Lexham English Bible
‘Observe the Sabbath day to make it holy, just as Yahweh your God has commanded you.

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

New Century Version
"Keep the Sabbath as a holy day, as the Lord your God has commanded you.

New English Translation
Be careful to observe the Sabbath day just as the Lord your God has commanded you.

Amplified Bible
'Observe the Sabbath day to keep it holy (set apart, dedicated to God), 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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Keepe the Sabbath day, to sanctifie it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

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

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

Complete Jewish Bible
ד "‘Observe the day of Shabbat, to set it apart as holy, as Adonai your God ordered you to do.

Darby Translation
Keep the sabbath day to hallow it, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee.

George Lamsa Translation
Keep the sabbath day and sanctify it, as 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.

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

Literal Translation
Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah your God has commanded you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Kepe ye Sabbath daye, that thou sanctifye it, as the LORDE thy God hath commauded the.

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

Bible in Basic English
Keep the Sabbath day as a holy day, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Kepe the Sabbath day, that thou sanctifie it as the Lorde thy God hath commaunded thee.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;

King James Version (1611)
Keepe the Sabbath day to sanctifie it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God commanded thee.

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

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Kepe thou the `day of sabat that thou halewe it, as thi Lord God comaundide to thee.

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

Update Bible Version
Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh 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.

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

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

New Life Bible
‘Remember the Day of Rest, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God told you.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Observe the sabbath day, to hallow it, - as Yahweh thy God, hath commanded thee:

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

Revised Standard Version
"'Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

THE MESSAGE
No working on the Sabbath; keep it holy just as God , your God, commanded you. Work six days, doing everything you have to do, but the seventh day is a Sabbath, a Rest Day—no work: not you, your son, your daughter, your servant, your maid, your ox, your donkey (or any of your animals), and not even the foreigner visiting your town. That way your servants and maids will get the same rest as you. Don't ever forget that you were slaves in Egypt and God , your God, got you out of there in a powerful show of strength. That's why God , your God, commands you to observe the day of Sabbath rest.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Observe the sabbath day to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.

Contextual Overview

⁶ ‘I am the Lord your God. I am the one who freed you from Egypt, where you were slaves. ⁷ ‘You must not worship any other gods except me. ⁸ ‘You must not make any idols. Don't make any statues or pictures of anything up in the sky or of anything on the earth or of anything down in the water. ⁹ Don't worship or serve idols of any kind, because I am the Lord your God. I hate for my people to worship other gods. People who sin against me become my enemies. And I will punish them, and their children, their grandchildren, and even their great-grandchildren. ¹⁰ But I will be very kind to people who love me and obey my commands. I will be kind to their families for thousands of generations! ¹¹ ‘You must not use the name of the Lord your God to make empty promises. If you do, the Lord will not let you go unpunished. ¹² ‘You must keep the Sabbath a special day like the Lord your God commanded. ¹³ Work six days a week and do your job, ¹⁴ but the seventh day is a day of rest in honor of the Lord your God. So on that day no one should work—not you, your sons and daughters, foreigners living in your cities or your men and women slaves. Not even your cattle, donkeys, and other animals should do any work! Your slaves should be able to rest just as you do. ¹⁵ Don't forget that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. The Lord your God brought you out of Egypt with his great power and made you free. That is why the Lord your God commands you to always make the Sabbath a special day.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 20:8-11, Isaiah 56:6, Isaiah 58:13

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:3 - blessed Exodus 16:30 - General Exodus 31:14 - keep Exodus 34:21 - Six Exodus 35:2 - Six days Nehemiah 10:31 - the people Nehemiah 13:22 - sanctify Jeremiah 17:22 - neither do Ezekiel 20:12 - I gave

Cross-References

Luke 3:37
Lamech was the son of Methuselah. Methuselah was the son of Enoch. Enoch was the son of Jared. Jared was the son of Mahalaleel. Mahalaleel was the son of Cainan.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ver. 12,13. 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 Exodus 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 Exodus 16:23.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Exodus 20:0 and notes.

Moses here adopts the Ten Words as a ground from which he may proceed to reprove, warn, and exhort; and repeats them, with a certain measure of freedom and adaptation. Our Lord Mark 10:19 and Paul Ephesians 6:2-3 deal similarly with the same subject. Speaker and hearers recognized, however, a statutory and authoritative form of the laws in question, which, because it was familiar to both parties, needed not to be reproduced with verbal fidelity.

Deuteronomy 5:12-15

The exhortation to observe the Sabbath and allow time of rest to servants (compare Exodus 23:12) is pointed by reminding the people that they too were formerly servants themselves. The bondage in Egypt and the deliverance from it are not assigned as grounds for the institution of the Sabbath, which is of far older date (see Genesis 2:3), but rather as suggesting motives for the religious observance of that institution. The Exodus was an entrance into rest from the toils of the house of bondage, and is thought actually to have occurred on the Sabbath day or “rest” day.

Deuteronomy 5:16

The blessing of general well-being here annexed to the keeping of the fifth commandment, is no real addition to the promise, but only an amplification of its expression.

Deuteronomy 5:21

The “field” is added to the list of objects specifically forbidden in the parallel passage Exodus 20:17. The addition seems very natural in one who was speaking with the partition of Canaan among his hearers directly in view.