Deuteronomy 5:12

The NET Bible®

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

Parallel Translations

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

Update Bible Version
Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.

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

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

Amplified Bible
'Observe the Sabbath day to keep it holy (set apart, dedicated to God), as the LORD your God 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;

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

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

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.

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.

Easy-to-Read Version
‘You must keep the Sabbath a special day like the Lord your God commanded.

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.

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:

Geneva Bible (1587)
Keepe the Sabbath day, to sanctifie it, as the Lord 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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Contextual Overview

⁶ "I am the Lord your God, he who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the place of slavery. ⁷ You must not have any other gods besides me. ⁸ You must not make for yourself an image of anything in heaven above, on earth below, or in the waters beneath. ⁹ You must not worship or serve them, for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. I punish the sons, grandsons, and great-grandsons for the sin of the fathers who reject me, ¹⁰ but I show covenant faithfulness to the thousands who choose me and keep my commandments. ¹¹ You must not make use of the name of the Lord your God for worthless purposes, for the Lord will not exonerate anyone who abuses his name that way. ¹² Be careful to observe the Sabbath day just as the Lord your God has commanded you. ¹³ You are to work and do all your tasks in six days, ¹⁴ but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the foreigner who lives with you, so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have rest. ¹⁵ Recall that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there by strength and power. That is why the Lord your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath 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
the son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalalel, the son of Kenan,

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.