Bible Verses About Sabbath

“It shall be a statute to you forever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and shall do no kind of work, the native-born, or the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you:

for on this day shall atonement be made for you, to cleanse you; from all your sins you shall be clean before the LORD.

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

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

“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am the LORD.

The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

“Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘The set feasts of the LORD, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my set feasts.

“‘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 the LORD in all your dwellings.

“However on the tenth day of this seventh month is Yom Kippur: it shall be a holy convocation to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; and you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD.

You shall do no kind of work in that same day; for it is Yom Kippur, to make atonement for you before the LORD your God.

For whoever it is who shall not deny himself in that same day; shall be cut off from his people.

Whoever it is who does any kind of work in that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.

You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath.”

Every Sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually. It is on the behalf of the children of Israel an everlasting covenant.

“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD.

Then the land will enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths.

As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn’t have in your Sabbaths, when you lived on it.

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

Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.

They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.

The LORD said to Moses, “The man shall surely be put to death. All the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp.”

All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones, as the LORD commanded Moses.

“‘On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without defect, and two tenth parts of an efah of fine flour for a meal offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering:

this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering.