Exodus 16:23

After these things I looked and saw a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, like a trumpet speaking with me, was one saying, “Come up here, and I will show you the things which must happen after this.”

“ ‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.

Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne

He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored beast, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.’ ”

“ ‘Each one of you shall respect his mother and his father. You shall keep my Sabbaths. I am Yahweh your God.

He said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, bought spices, that they might come and anoint him.

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they and some others came to the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

He carried me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and showed me the holy city, Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

On the seventh day God finished his work which he had done; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work of creation which he had done.

You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.

‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.

In the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work,

On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.

He made known his ways to Moses, his deeds to the children of Israel.

He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

Therefore the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

On the first day of the week, when the disciples were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and continued his speech until midnight.

Moses said, “Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the field.

The house of Israel called its name “Manna”, and it was like coriander seed, white; and its taste was like wafers with honey.

You shall labor six days, and do all your work,

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

he says, who hears the words of God, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down, and having his eyes open:

and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

This is the day that Yahweh has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it!

Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me. New moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can’t stand evil assemblies.

Don’t carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day. Don’t do any work, but make the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.

Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.

Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.’

When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb; and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, “There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!”

They returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a loud voice, like a trumpet

In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, only that may be done by you.

Moses said to them, “Let no one leave of it until the morning.”

Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”

“Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed.

You shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.

These are the commandments which Yahweh commanded Moses for the children of Israel on Mount Sinai.

The people went around, gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in mortars, and boiled it in pots, and made cakes of it. Its taste was like the taste of fresh oil.

While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the middle of the land where you go in to possess it.

These are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances which Moses spoke to the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt,

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which you shall not do any work— neither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

But as for you, stand here by me, and I will tell you all the commandments, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which you shall teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess.”

Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.”

He said, “Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh. Sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice.” He sanctified Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.

They buried him in his own tomb, which he had dug out for himself in David’s city, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds of spices prepared by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.

“Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you trespass, I will scatter you among the peoples;

and made known to them your holy Sabbath, and commanded them commandments, statutes, and a law, by Moses your servant,

Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

Also the foreigners who join themselves to Yahweh to serve him, and to love Yahweh’s name, to be his servants, everyone who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and holds fast my covenant,

“If you turn away your foot from the Sabbath, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Sabbath a delight, and the holy of Yahweh honorable; and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, “Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”

The Pharisees said to him, “Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?”

But some of the Pharisees said to them, “Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?”

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

Therefore the Jews, because it was the Preparation Day, so that the bodies wouldn’t remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a special one), asked of Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

When therefore it was evening on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the middle, and said to them, “Peace be to you.”

For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”

On the first day of every week, let each one of you save, as he may prosper, that no collections are made when I come.