Bible Verses About Sabbath

"It is to be a permanent regulation for you that on the tenth day of the seventh month you are to deny yourselves and not do any kind of work, both the citizen and the foreigner living with you.

For on this day, atonement will be made for you to purify you; you will be clean before ADONAI from all your sins.

It is a Shabbat of complete rest for you, and you are to deny yourselves. "This is a permanent regulation.

"'Every one of you is to revere his father and mother, and you are to keep my Shabbats; I am ADONAI your God.

"'Keep my Shabbats, and revere my sanctuary; I am ADONAI.

ADONAI said to Moshe,

"Tell the people of Isra'el: 'The designated times of ADONAI which you are to proclaim as holy convocations are my designated times.

"'Work is to be done on six days; but the seventh day is a Shabbat of complete rest, a holy convocation; you are not to do any kind of work; it is a Shabbat for ADONAI, even in your homes.

"The tenth day of this seventh month is Yom-Kippur; you are to have a holy convocation, you are to deny yourselves, and you are to bring an offering made by fire to ADONAI.

You are not to do any kind of work on that day, because it is Yom-Kippur, to make atonement for you before ADONAI your God.

Anyone who does not deny himself on that day is to be cut off from his people;

and anyone who does any kind of work on that day, I will destroy from among his people.

You are not to do any kind of work; it is a permanent regulation through all your generations, no matter where you live.

It will be for you a Shabbat of complete rest, and you are to deny yourselves; you are to rest on your Shabbat from evening the ninth day of the month until the following evening."

Regularly, every Shabbat, he is to arrange them before ADONAI ; they are from the people of Isra'el, as a covenant forever.

"'Keep my Shabbats, and revere my sanctuary; I am ADONAI.

Then, at last, the land will be paid its Shabbats. As long as it lies desolate and you are in the lands of your enemies, the land will rest and be repaid its Shabbats.

Yes, as long as it lies desolate it will have rest, the rest it did not have during your Shabbats, when you lived there.

While the people of Isra'el were in the desert, they found a man gathering wood on Shabbat.

Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moshe, Aharon and the whole congregation.

They kept him in custody, because it had not yet been decided what to do to him.

Then ADONAI said to Moshe, "This man must be put to death; the entire community is to stone him to death outside the camp."

So the whole community brought him outside the camp and threw stones at him until he died, as ADONAI had ordered Moshe.

"'On Shabbat offer two male lambs in their first year and without defect, with one gallon of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with olive oil, and its drink offering.

This is the burnt offering for every Shabbat, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.