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class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/5.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#001320" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/deuteronomy/5.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />&#8220Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/deuteronomy/5.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />“Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/deuteronomy/5.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />“‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/5.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/5.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/deuteronomy/5.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/deuteronomy/5.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />‘Keep the Sabbath day to treat it as holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/5.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8216Observe the sabbath day to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/deuteronomy/5.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />‘Observe the sabbath day to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/deuteronomy/5.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />‘Observe the sabbath day to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/deuteronomy/5.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />‘Observe the Sabbath day to keep it holy (set apart, dedicated to God), as the LORD your God commanded you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/deuteronomy/5.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Be careful to remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy as the LORD your God has commanded you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/deuteronomy/5.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Be careful to remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy as the LORD your God has commanded you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/deuteronomy/5.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/deuteronomy/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Show respect for the Sabbath Day--it belongs to me. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/deuteronomy/5.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD thy God commanded thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/deuteronomy/5.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />"Observe the day of worship as a holy day. This is what the LORD your God has commanded you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/deuteronomy/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"'Observe the Sabbath and keep it holy, as I, the LORD your God, have commanded you. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/deuteronomy/5.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"'You are to keep the Sabbath day holy, just as the LORD your God commanded. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/deuteronomy/5.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Be careful to observe the Sabbath day just as the LORD your God has commanded you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/deuteronomy/5.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />"Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/deuteronomy/5.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Keep the sabbath-day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/deuteronomy/5.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/deuteronomy/5.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />“Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/deuteronomy/5.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Observe the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as your God YHWH has commanded you;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/deuteronomy/5.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> 'Observe the day of the sabbath -- to sanctify it, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/deuteronomy/5.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Watch the day of the Sabbath to consecrate it, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/deuteronomy/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/deuteronomy/5.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Observe the day of the Sabbath, so that you may sanctify it, just as the Lord your God has instructed you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/deuteronomy/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Observe the sabbath day—keep it holy, as the LORD, your God, commanded you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/deuteronomy/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/deuteronomy/5.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Keep the sabbath day and sanctify it, as the LORD your God has commanded you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/deuteronomy/5.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Keep the day of the Sabbath and hallow it as LORD JEHOVAH your God commanded you.<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/deuteronomy/5.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD thy God commanded thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/deuteronomy/5.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God commanded thee.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/deuteronomy/5-12.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/IRhBtZaVxJ0?start=1718" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/deuteronomy/5.htm">The Ten Commandments</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">11</span>You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave anyone unpunished who takes His name in vain. <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/8104.htm" title="8104: šā·mō·wr (V-Qal-InfAbs) -- To keep, watch, preserve. A primitive root; properly, to hedge about, i.e. Guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc.">Observe</a> <a href="/hebrew/853.htm" title="853: ’eṯ- (DirObjM) -- Apparent contracted from 'owth in the demonstrative sense of entity; properly, self."></a> <a href="/hebrew/7676.htm" title="7676: haš·šab·bå̄ṯ (Art:: N-cs) -- Sabbath. Intensive from shabath; intermission, i.e the Sabbath.">the Sabbath</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: yō·wm (N-msc) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">day</a> <a href="/hebrew/6942.htm" title="6942: lə·qad·də·šōw (Prep-l:: V-Piel-Inf:: 3ms) -- To be set apart or consecrated. A primitive root; to be clean.">by keeping it holy,</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ka·’ă·šer (Prep-k:: Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">as</a> <a href="/hebrew/3068.htm" title="3068: Yah·weh (N-proper-ms) -- The proper name of the God of Israel. From hayah; self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God.">the LORD</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: ʾɛ̆·lō·hɛ·ḵå̄ (N-mpc:: 2ms) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">your God</a> <a href="/hebrew/6680.htm" title="6680: ṣiw·wə·ḵā (V-Piel-Perf-3ms:: 2ms) -- To lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command, order. A primitive root; to constitute, enjoin.">has commanded you.</a> </span><span class="reftext">13</span>Six days you shall labor and do all your work,…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/20-8.htm">Exodus 20:8-11</a></span><br />Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. / Six days you shall labor and do all your work, / but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/genesis/2-2.htm">Genesis 2:2-3</a></span><br />And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work. / Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/exodus/31-13.htm">Exodus 31:13-17</a></span><br />“Tell the Israelites, ‘Surely you must keep My Sabbaths, for this will be a sign between Me and you for the generations to come, so that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you. / Keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Anyone who profanes it must surely be put to death. Whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from among his people. / For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/leviticus/23-3.htm">Leviticus 23:3</a></span><br />For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/58-13.htm">Isaiah 58:13-14</a></span><br />If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words, / then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nehemiah/13-15.htm">Nehemiah 13:15-22</a></span><br />In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day. / Additionally, men of Tyre who lived there were importing fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah in Jerusalem. / Then I rebuked the nobles of Judah and asked, “What is this evil you are doing—profaning the Sabbath day? ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/20-12.htm">Ezekiel 20:12</a></span><br />I also gave them My Sabbaths as a sign between us, so that they would know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/20-20.htm">Ezekiel 20:20</a></span><br />Keep My Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/12-8.htm">Matthew 12:8</a></span><br />For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/2-27.htm">Mark 2:27-28</a></span><br />Then Jesus declared, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. / Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/6-5.htm">Luke 6:5</a></span><br />Then Jesus declared, “The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/4-9.htm">Hebrews 4:9-10</a></span><br />There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God. / For whoever enters God’s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/colossians/2-16.htm">Colossians 2:16-17</a></span><br />Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath. / These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/14-5.htm">Romans 14:5-6</a></span><br />One person regards a certain day above the others, while someone else considers every day alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. / He who observes a special day does so to the Lord; he who eats does so to the Lord, for he gives thanks to God; and he who abstains does so to the Lord and gives thanks to God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/20-7.htm">Acts 20:7</a></span><br />On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Since Paul was ready to leave the next day, he talked to them and kept on speaking until midnight.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD your God has commanded you.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/exodus/20-8.htm">Exodus 20:8-11</a></b></br> Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/56-6.htm">Isaiah 56:6</a></b></br> 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;</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/58-13.htm">Isaiah 58:13</a></b></br> If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, <i>from</i> 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 <i>thine own</i> words:</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/deuteronomy/4-23.htm">Commanded</a> <a href="/numbers/6-11.htm">Hallow</a> <a href="/numbers/35-25.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/5-10.htm">Keeping</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/5-1.htm">Observe</a> <a href="/numbers/36-2.htm">Ordered</a> <a href="/numbers/28-10.htm">Sabbath</a> <a href="/numbers/28-9.htm">Sabbath-Day</a> <a href="/numbers/27-14.htm">Sanctify</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/deuteronomy/5-15.htm">Commanded</a> <a href="/joshua/3-5.htm">Hallow</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/7-5.htm">Holy</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/6-2.htm">Keeping</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/5-15.htm">Observe</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/5-16.htm">Ordered</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/5-14.htm">Sabbath</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/5-15.htm">Sabbath-Day</a> <a href="/deuteronomy/15-19.htm">Sanctify</a><div class="vheading2">Deuteronomy 5</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/5-1.htm">The covenant in Horeb</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/5-6.htm">The ten commandments</a></span><br><span class="reftext">23. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/deuteronomy/5-23.htm">At the people's request Moses receives the law from God</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> <br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/deuteronomy/5.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/deuteronomy/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/deuteronomy/5.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div><b>Observe the Sabbath day</b><br>The command to observe the Sabbath is rooted in the creation narrative, where God rested on the seventh day (<a href="/genesis/2-2.htm">Genesis 2:2-3</a>). This establishes a pattern of work and rest, reflecting God's own actions. The Sabbath is a day set apart for rest and worship, emphasizing the importance of dedicating time to God. In the ancient Near Eastern context, this command was countercultural, as most societies did not have a regular day of rest.<p><b>by keeping it holy</b><br>To keep the Sabbath holy means to set it apart for sacred use. Holiness in the biblical sense involves separation from the ordinary and dedication to God. This concept is echoed in <a href="/exodus/31-13.htm">Exodus 31:13</a>, where the Sabbath is described as a sign between God and His people. The holiness of the Sabbath is a reminder of God's sanctifying work in the lives of His people, calling them to live distinctively.<p><b>as the LORD your God has commanded you</b><br>This phrase underscores the divine authority behind the command. The LORD, Yahweh, is the covenant God of Israel, and His commandments are not mere suggestions but binding obligations. The repetition of this command in <a href="/deuteronomy/5-12.htm">Deuteronomy 5:12</a>, as well as in <a href="/exodus/20-8.htm">Exodus 20:8-11</a>, highlights its importance. It also points to the covenant relationship between God and Israel, where obedience to God's commands is a response to His grace and deliverance, as seen in the Exodus narrative.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/m/moses.htm">Moses</a></b><br>The prophet and leader of the Israelites who delivered God's commandments to the people.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israelites.htm">Israelites</a></b><br>The chosen people of God, who were given the Law, including the command to observe the Sabbath.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/m/mount_sinai.htm">Mount Sinai</a></b><br>The place where God gave the Ten Commandments to Moses, including the command to keep the Sabbath.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/s/sabbath.htm">Sabbath</a></b><br>A day of rest and worship, instituted by God as a sign of His covenant with Israel.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_lord.htm">The LORD (Yahweh)</a></b><br>The covenant-keeping God who commands His people to observe the Sabbath as a holy day.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_purpose_of_the_sabbath.htm">The Purpose of the Sabbath</a></b><br>The Sabbath is a gift from God, designed for rest and spiritual renewal. It is a time to cease from labor and focus on worship and reflection.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/h/holiness_and_obedience.htm">Holiness and Obedience</a></b><br>Observing the Sabbath is an act of obedience to God's command. It is a way to set apart time as holy, acknowledging God's sovereignty over time and life.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/a/a_sign_of_covenant_relationship.htm">A Sign of Covenant Relationship</a></b><br>The Sabbath serves as a sign of the covenant between God and His people, reminding them of their identity and relationship with Him.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/r/rest_as_a_reflection_of_trust.htm">Rest as a Reflection of Trust</a></b><br>By resting on the Sabbath, believers demonstrate trust in God's provision and care, acknowledging that He is the ultimate provider.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/c/christ_as_our_sabbath_rest.htm">Christ as Our Sabbath Rest</a></b><br>In the New Testament, Jesus fulfills the Sabbath, offering believers rest from striving for salvation through works. In Christ, we find true spiritual rest.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_deuteronomy_5.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Deuteronomy 5</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_is_loving_the_lord_fully.htm">What is loving the Lord with all your being?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/do_sabbath_sacrifices_contradict_rest_laws.htm">Does Numbers 28:9–10, mandating additional sacrifices on the Sabbath, contradict other passages prohibiting labor on the Sabbath? </a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_'remember_the_sabbath'_mean.htm">What does "Remember the Sabbath day" mean?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what_does_sabbath_day_rest_mean.htm">What is the meaning of Sabbath Day rest?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/deuteronomy/5.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(12-15) The language of this commandment is identical with the form it takes in Exodus only so far as the 13th and 14th verses are concerned; and even here the special mention of the ox and the ass is confined to Deuteronomy. The introduction and the close of the command, which gives the reason for it, are different here. The reason drawn from the creation is not mentioned; the reason drawn from the exodus is. This fact illustrates the observation that in Deuteronomy we find "the Gospel of the Pentateuch." If for the exodus of Israel we substitute here "the exodus of Christ, which He accomplished at Jerusalem," not so much by His <span class= "ital">death as by His resurrection, </span>we have a reason for keeping <span class= "ital">not the Sabbath, but the Lord's Day.</span><p>It is worth while to observe that the Israelites had express authority given them to <span class= "ital">enforce the observance of the Sabbath upon Gentiles, </span>when these could be regarded as "strangers within their gates." The words <a href="/isaiah/56-6.htm" title="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 keeps the sabbath from polluting it, and takes hold of my covenant;">Isaiah 56:6</a> seem to show that "strangers" who "took hold of the covenant" of Jehovah were expected to "keep His sabbath from polluting it." For an example of its enforcement, see <a href="/nehemiah/13-16.htm" title="There dwelled men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath to the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.">Nehemiah 13:16</a>; <a href="/context/nehemiah/13-20.htm" title="So the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice.">Nehemiah 13:20-21</a>.<p>If any difficulty is felt at the variation of the form of the commandment from that which we have in Exodus, it should be observed, first, that the <span class= "ital">command itself is not altered, </span>as appears by <a href="/context/deuteronomy/5-13.htm" title="Six days you shall labor, and do all your work:">Deuteronomy 5:13-14</a>, compared with <a href="/context/exodus/20-9.htm" title="Six days shall you labor, and do all your work:">Exodus 20:9-10</a>; and secondly, that in this exhortation Moses calls Israel to hear the statutes and judgments which he, as their mediator, commands them, and that he is free to enforce them by such reasons as may seem to him best. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/deuteronomy/5.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 12-14.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Keep the Sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.</span> This phraseology implies that the Sabbath institute was already well known to the people of Israel; so that this commandment was intended, not to enact a new observance, but to enforce the continuance of an observance which had come down to them from earlier times. The Sabbath was to be kept by being <span class="accented">sanctified</span>. This means that it was to be consecrated to God to be used as he had appointed. The sanctification of any object "always goes back to an act of the Divine will, to Divine election and institution. In other words, it is always a state in which the creature [or institute] is bound to God by the appointment of God himself, which is expressed by <span class="hebrew">קֹדֶשׁ הִקְדִישׁ קִדֵּשׁ קָדושׁ</span>, XXX" (Oehler, 'Theology of the Old Testament,' vol. 1. p. 155). The sanctification of the Sabbath, accordingly, was the consecration of that day to the Lord, to be observed as he had enjoined, that is, as a day of rest from all servile work and ordinary occupations. Among the Jews, those who were careful to keep this law "rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment" (<a href="/luke/23-56.htm">Luke 23:56</a>). Not, however, in mere indolence and idle vacancy, unworthy of a man. Not thus could the day be sanctified to the Lord. Man had to "release his soul and body from all their burdens, with all the professions and pursuits of ordinary life, only in order to gather himself together again in God with greater purity and fewer disturbing elements, and renew in him the might of his own better powers" (Ewald, 'Antiquities of Israel,' p. 102). In the Sabbath institute, therefore, lies the basis of spiritual worship and pious service in Israel. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/deuteronomy/5-12.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Remember</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׁמ֣֛וֹר</span> <span class="translit">(šā·mō·wr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8104.htm">Strong's 8104: </a> </span><span class="str2">To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the Sabbath</span><br /><span class="heb">הַשַׁבָּ֖֨ת‪‬‪‬</span> <span class="translit">(haš·šab·bāṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7676.htm">Strong's 7676: </a> </span><span class="str2">Intermission, the Sabbath</span><br /><br /><span class="word">day</span><br /><span class="heb">י֥וֹם֩</span> <span class="translit">(yō·wm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> </span><span class="str2">A day</span><br /><br /><span class="word">by keeping it holy,</span><br /><span class="heb">לְקַדְּשׁ֑֜וֹ</span> <span class="translit">(lə·qad·də·šōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Verb - Piel - Infinitive construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6942.htm">Strong's 6942: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be set apart or consecrated</span><br /><br /><span class="word">as</span><br /><span class="heb">כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר</span> <span class="translit">(ka·’ă·šer)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k | Pronoun - relative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> </span><span class="str2">Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the LORD</span><br /><span class="heb">יְהוָ֥֣ה</span> <span class="translit">(Yah·weh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3068.htm">Strong's 3068: </a> </span><span class="str2">LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your God</span><br /><span class="heb">אֱלֹהֶֽ֗יךָ‪‬</span> <span class="translit">(’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> </span><span class="str2">gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative</span><br /><br /><span class="word">has commanded you.</span><br /><span class="heb">צִוְּךָ֖֣ ׀</span> <span class="translit">(ṣiw·wə·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6680.htm">Strong's 6680: </a> </span><span class="str2">To lay charge (upon), give charge (to), command, order</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/deuteronomy/5-12.htm">Deuteronomy 5:12 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/deuteronomy/5-12.htm">Deuteronomy 5:12 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/deuteronomy/5-12.htm">Deuteronomy 5:12 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/deuteronomy/5-12.htm">Deuteronomy 5:12 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/deuteronomy/5-12.htm">Deuteronomy 5:12 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/deuteronomy/5-12.htm">Deuteronomy 5:12 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/deuteronomy/5-12.htm">Deuteronomy 5:12 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/deuteronomy/5-12.htm">Deuteronomy 5:12 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/deuteronomy/5-12.htm">Deuteronomy 5:12 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/deuteronomy/5-12.htm">Deuteronomy 5:12 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/deuteronomy/5-12.htm">OT Law: Deuteronomy 5:12 Observe the Sabbath day to keep it (Deut. 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