Deuteronomy 5:12
Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.
Deuteronomy 5:12 in other translations
| BSB | Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you. |
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| WEB | “Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. |
| ASV | Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee. |
| YLT | ‘Observe the day of the sabbath--to sanctify it, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee; |
| DARBY | Keep the sabbath day to hallow it, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee. |
| BBE | Keep the Sabbath day as a holy day, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God. |
| Webster | Keep the sabbath-day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. |
What does Deuteronomy 5:12 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 5:6-20
6-20. I am the Lord thy God--The word "Lord" is expressive of authority or dominion; and God, who by natural claim as well as by covenant relation was entitled to exercise supremacy over His people Israel, had a sovereign right to establish laws for their government. [See on Ex 20:2.] The commandments which follow are, with a few slight verbal alterations, the same as formerly recorded (Ex 20:1-17), and in some of…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 5:6-22
There is some variation here from Ex 20 as between the Lord's prayer in Mt 6 and Lu 11. It is more necessary that we tie ourselves to the things, than to the words unalterably. The original reason for hallowing the sabbath, taken from God's resting from the work of creation on the seventh day, is not here mentioned. Though this ever remains in force, it is not the only reason. Here it is taken from Israel's…
Deuteronomy 5:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 5:12
- Exodus 20:8-11
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
- Isaiah 58:13
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from 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 thine own words:
- Isaiah 56:6
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;
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Context
- Deuteronomy 5:11
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
- Deuteronomy 5:12
Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.
- Deuteronomy 5:13
Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
Deuteronomy 5:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Guardarás el día del reposo para santificarlo, como Jehová tu Dios te ha mandado. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Garde le jour du sabbat pour le sanctifier, comme l’ Éternel, ton Dieu, te l’a commandé. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Beobachte den Sabbathtag, ihn zu heiligen, so wie Jehova, dein Gott, dir geboten hat. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Observa diem sabbati, ut sanctifices eum, sicut præcepit tibi Dominus Deus tuus. |