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Leviticus 26:2
Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.
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Hebrew Names Version
You shall keep my Shabbatot, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
You shall keep my Shabbatot, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
King James Version
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord .
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord .
Lexham English Bible
"‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and you shall revere my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
"‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and you shall revere my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
New Century Version
"‘Remember my Sabbaths, and respect my Holy Place. I am the Lord .
"‘Remember my Sabbaths, and respect my Holy Place. I am the Lord .
New English Translation
You must keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord .
You must keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord .
Amplified Bible
'You shall keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
'You shall keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
New American Standard Bible
'You shall keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am the LORD.
'You shall keep My Sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am the LORD.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye shall keepe my Sabbaths, and reuerence my Sanctuarie: I am the Lorde.
Ye shall keepe my Sabbaths, and reuerence my Sanctuarie: I am the Lorde.
Legacy Standard Bible
You shall keep My sabbaths and fear My sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
You shall keep My sabbaths and fear My sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
Contemporary English Version
Respect the Sabbath and honor the place where I am worshiped, because I am the Lord .
Respect the Sabbath and honor the place where I am worshiped, because I am the Lord .
Complete Jewish Bible
"‘Keep my Shabbats, and revere my sanctuary; I am Adonai . Haftarah B'har: Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 32:6–27 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah B'har: Luke 4:16–21; 1 Corinthians 7:21–24; Galatians 6:7–10 [In regular years read with Parashah 32, in leap years read separately] "‘If you live by my regulations, observe my mitzvot and obey them; then I will provide the rain you need in its season, the land will yield its produce, and the trees in the field will yield their fruit. Your threshing time will extend until the grape harvest, and your grape harvesting will extend until the time for sowing seed. You will eat as much food as you want and live securely in your land. (LY: ii) "‘I will give shalom in the land — you will lie down to sleep unafraid of anyone. I will rid the land of wild animals. The sword will not go through your land. You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall before your sword. Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand — your enemies will fall before your sword. "‘I will turn toward you, make you productive, increase your numbers and uphold my covenant with you. (RY: v, LY: iii) You will eat all you want from last year's harvest and throw out what remains of the old to make room for the new. I will put my tabernacle among you, and I will not reject you, but I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. I am Adonai your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, so that you can walk upright. "‘But if you will not listen to me and obey all these mitzvot, if you loathe my regulations and reject my rulings, in order not to obey all my mitzvot but cancel my covenant; then I, for my part, will do this to you: I will bring terror upon you — wasting disease and chronic fever to dim your sight and sap your strength. You will sow your seed for nothing, because your enemies will eat the crops. I will set my face against you — your enemies will defeat you, those who hate you will hound you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you. If these things don't make you listen to me, then I will discipline you seven times over for your sins. I will break the pride you have in your own power. I will make your sky like iron, your soil like bronze — you will spend your strength in vain, because the land will not yield its produce or the trees in the field their fruit. "‘Yes, if you go against me and don't listen to me, I will increase your calamities sevenfold, according to your sins. I will send wild animals among you; they will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock and reduce your numbers, until your roads are deserted. "‘If, in spite of all this, you refuse my correction and still go against me; then I too will go against you; and I, yes I, will strike you seven times over for your sins. I will bring a sword against you which will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be huddled inside your cities, I will send sickness among you, and you will be handed over to the power of the enemy. I will cut off your supply of bread, so that ten women will bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you will eat but not be satisfied. "‘And if, for all this, you still will not listen to me, but go against me; then I will go against you furiously, and I also will chastise you yet seven times more for your sins. You will eat the flesh of your own sons, you will eat the flesh of your own daughters. I will destroy your high places, cut down your pillars for sun-worship, and throw your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols; and I will detest you. I will lay waste to your cities and make your sanctuaries desolate, so as not to smell your fragrant aromas. I will desolate the land, so that your enemies living in it will be astounded by it. You I will disperse among the nations, and I will draw out the sword in pursuit after you; your land will be a desolation and your cities a wasteland. 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. As for those of you who are left, I will fill their hearts with anxiety in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will frighten them, so that they will flee as one flees from the sword and fall when no one is pursuing. Yes, with no one pursuing they will stumble over each other as if fleeing the sword — you will have no power to stand before your enemies. And among the nations you will perish; the land of your enemies will devour you. Those of you who remain will pine away in the lands of your enemies from guilt over your misdeeds and those of your ancestors. Then they will confess their misdeeds and those of their ancestors which they committed against me in their rebellion; they will admit that they went against me. At that time I will be going against them, bringing them into the lands of their enemies. But if their uncircumcised hearts will grow humble, and they are paid the punishment for their misdeeds; then I will remember my covenant with Ya‘akov, also my covenant with Yitz'chak and my covenant with Avraham; and I will remember the land. For the land will lie abandoned without them, and it will be paid its Shabbats while it lies desolate without them; and they will be paid the punishment for their misdeeds, because they rejected my rulings and loathed my regulations. Yet, in spite of all that, I will not reject them when they are in the lands of their enemies, nor will I loathe them to the point of utterly destroying them and thus break my covenant with them, because I am Adonai their God. Rather, for their sakes, I will remember the covenant of their ancestors whom I brought out of the land of Egypt — with the nations watching — so that I might be their God; I am Adonai .'" These are the laws, rulings and teachings that Adonai himself gave to the people of Isra'el on Mount Sinai through Moshe.
"‘Keep my Shabbats, and revere my sanctuary; I am Adonai . Haftarah B'har: Yirmeyahu (Jeremiah) 32:6–27 B'rit Hadashah suggested readings for Parashah B'har: Luke 4:16–21; 1 Corinthians 7:21–24; Galatians 6:7–10 [In regular years read with Parashah 32, in leap years read separately] "‘If you live by my regulations, observe my mitzvot and obey them; then I will provide the rain you need in its season, the land will yield its produce, and the trees in the field will yield their fruit. Your threshing time will extend until the grape harvest, and your grape harvesting will extend until the time for sowing seed. You will eat as much food as you want and live securely in your land. (LY: ii) "‘I will give shalom in the land — you will lie down to sleep unafraid of anyone. I will rid the land of wild animals. The sword will not go through your land. You will pursue your enemies, and they will fall before your sword. Five of you will chase a hundred, and a hundred of you will chase ten thousand — your enemies will fall before your sword. "‘I will turn toward you, make you productive, increase your numbers and uphold my covenant with you. (RY: v, LY: iii) You will eat all you want from last year's harvest and throw out what remains of the old to make room for the new. I will put my tabernacle among you, and I will not reject you, but I will walk among you and be your God, and you will be my people. I am Adonai your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, so that you would not be their slaves. I have broken the bars of your yoke, so that you can walk upright. "‘But if you will not listen to me and obey all these mitzvot, if you loathe my regulations and reject my rulings, in order not to obey all my mitzvot but cancel my covenant; then I, for my part, will do this to you: I will bring terror upon you — wasting disease and chronic fever to dim your sight and sap your strength. You will sow your seed for nothing, because your enemies will eat the crops. I will set my face against you — your enemies will defeat you, those who hate you will hound you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you. If these things don't make you listen to me, then I will discipline you seven times over for your sins. I will break the pride you have in your own power. I will make your sky like iron, your soil like bronze — you will spend your strength in vain, because the land will not yield its produce or the trees in the field their fruit. "‘Yes, if you go against me and don't listen to me, I will increase your calamities sevenfold, according to your sins. I will send wild animals among you; they will rob you of your children, destroy your livestock and reduce your numbers, until your roads are deserted. "‘If, in spite of all this, you refuse my correction and still go against me; then I too will go against you; and I, yes I, will strike you seven times over for your sins. I will bring a sword against you which will execute the vengeance of the covenant. You will be huddled inside your cities, I will send sickness among you, and you will be handed over to the power of the enemy. I will cut off your supply of bread, so that ten women will bake your bread in one oven and dole out your bread by weight, and you will eat but not be satisfied. "‘And if, for all this, you still will not listen to me, but go against me; then I will go against you furiously, and I also will chastise you yet seven times more for your sins. You will eat the flesh of your own sons, you will eat the flesh of your own daughters. I will destroy your high places, cut down your pillars for sun-worship, and throw your carcasses on the carcasses of your idols; and I will detest you. I will lay waste to your cities and make your sanctuaries desolate, so as not to smell your fragrant aromas. I will desolate the land, so that your enemies living in it will be astounded by it. You I will disperse among the nations, and I will draw out the sword in pursuit after you; your land will be a desolation and your cities a wasteland. 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. As for those of you who are left, I will fill their hearts with anxiety in the lands of their enemies. The sound of a driven leaf will frighten them, so that they will flee as one flees from the sword and fall when no one is pursuing. Yes, with no one pursuing they will stumble over each other as if fleeing the sword — you will have no power to stand before your enemies. And among the nations you will perish; the land of your enemies will devour you. Those of you who remain will pine away in the lands of your enemies from guilt over your misdeeds and those of your ancestors. Then they will confess their misdeeds and those of their ancestors which they committed against me in their rebellion; they will admit that they went against me. At that time I will be going against them, bringing them into the lands of their enemies. But if their uncircumcised hearts will grow humble, and they are paid the punishment for their misdeeds; then I will remember my covenant with Ya‘akov, also my covenant with Yitz'chak and my covenant with Avraham; and I will remember the land. For the land will lie abandoned without them, and it will be paid its Shabbats while it lies desolate without them; and they will be paid the punishment for their misdeeds, because they rejected my rulings and loathed my regulations. Yet, in spite of all that, I will not reject them when they are in the lands of their enemies, nor will I loathe them to the point of utterly destroying them and thus break my covenant with them, because I am Adonai their God. Rather, for their sakes, I will remember the covenant of their ancestors whom I brought out of the land of Egypt — with the nations watching — so that I might be their God; I am Adonai .'" These are the laws, rulings and teachings that Adonai himself gave to the people of Isra'el on Mount Sinai through Moshe.
Darby Translation
Ye shall observe my sabbaths, and my sanctuary shall ye reverence: I am Jehovah.
Ye shall observe my sabbaths, and my sanctuary shall ye reverence: I am Jehovah.
Easy-to-Read Version
"Remember my special days of rest and honor my holy place. I am the Lord .
"Remember my special days of rest and honor my holy place. I am the Lord .
English Standard Version
You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord .
You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord .
George Lamsa Translation
You shall keep my commandments and reverence my sanctuary; I am the LORD.
You shall keep my commandments and reverence my sanctuary; I am the LORD.
Good News Translation
Keep the religious festivals and honor the place where I am worshiped. I am the Lord .
Keep the religious festivals and honor the place where I am worshiped. I am the Lord .
Christian Standard Bible®
Keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary; I am the Lord.
Keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary; I am the Lord.
Literal Translation
You shall keep My sabbaths, and revere My sanctuary; I am Jehovah.
You shall keep My sabbaths, and revere My sanctuary; I am Jehovah.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Kepe my Sabbathes, and stonde in awe of my Sanctuary. I am the LORDE.
Kepe my Sabbathes, and stonde in awe of my Sanctuary. I am the LORDE.
American Standard Version
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Jehovah.
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Jehovah.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye shall kepe my Sabbathes, and reuerence my sanctuarie: for I am the Lorde.
Ye shall kepe my Sabbathes, and reuerence my sanctuarie: for I am the Lorde.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ye shall keep My sabbaths, and reverence My sanctuary: I am the LORD.
Ye shall keep My sabbaths, and reverence My sanctuary: I am the LORD.
King James Version (1611)
Ye shal keepe my Sabbaths, and reuerence my Sanctuary: I am the Lord.
Ye shal keepe my Sabbaths, and reuerence my Sanctuary: I am the Lord.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuaries: I am the Lord.
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuaries: I am the Lord.
English Revised Version
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
You must keep My Sabbaths and show reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
You must keep My Sabbaths and show reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Kepe ye my sabatis, and drede ye at my seyntuarie; Y am the Lord.
Kepe ye my sabatis, and drede ye at my seyntuarie; Y am the Lord.
Young's Literal Translation
`My sabbaths ye do keep, and My sanctuary ye do reverence; I [am] Jehovah.
`My sabbaths ye do keep, and My sanctuary ye do reverence; I [am] Jehovah.
Update Bible Version
You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Yahweh.
You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Yahweh.
Webster's Bible Translation
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the LORD.
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the LORD.
World English Bible
You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Yahweh.
You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Yahweh.
New King James Version
You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I am the LORD.
You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I am the LORD.
New Living Translation
You must keep my Sabbath days of rest and show reverence for my sanctuary. I am the Lord .
You must keep my Sabbath days of rest and show reverence for my sanctuary. I am the Lord .
New Life Bible
Keep My Days of Rest and honor My holy place. I am the Lord.
Keep My Days of Rest and honor My holy place. I am the Lord.
New Revised Standard
You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord .
You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord .
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
My sabbaths, shall ye observe, And, my sanctuary, shall ye revere, - I, am Yahweh.
My sabbaths, shall ye observe, And, my sanctuary, shall ye revere, - I, am Yahweh.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
Keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
Revised Standard Version
You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
THE MESSAGE
"Keep my Sabbaths; treat my Sanctuary with reverence. I am God .
"Keep my Sabbaths; treat my Sanctuary with reverence. I am God .
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'You shall keep My sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am the LORD.
'You shall keep My sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am the LORD.
Contextual Overview
1 Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God. 2 Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord. 3 If you are guided by my rules, and keep my laws and do them, 4 Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit; 5 And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely. 6 And I will give you peace in the land, and you will take your rest and no one will give you cause for fear; and I will put an end to all evil beasts in the land, and no sword of war will go through your land. 7 And you will put to flight those who are against you, and they will be put to death by your swords. 8 Then five of you will put to flight a hundred, and a hundred of you will put to flight ten thousand, and all who are against you will be put to death by your swords. 9 And I will have pleasure in you and make you fertile and greater in number; and I will keep my agreement with you. 10 And old stores long kept will be your food, and you will take out the old because of the new;
Bible Verse Review
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Leviticus 19:30
Reciprocal: Exodus 31:13 - Verily Leviticus 5:15 - thy estimation Deuteronomy 5:6 - I am the Proverbs 3:10 - General
Cross-References
Genesis 12:1
Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:
Now the Lord said to Abram, Go out from your country and from your family and from your father's house, into the land to which I will be your guide:
Genesis 12:7
And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.
And the Lord came to Abram, and said, I will give all this land to your seed; then Abram made an altar there to the Lord who had let himself be seen by him.
Genesis 17:1
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,
Genesis 18:1
Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;
Now the Lord came to him by the holy tree of Mamre, when he was seated in the doorway of his tent in the middle of the day;
Genesis 26:10
Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours.
Then Abimelech said, What have you done to us? one of the people might well have had connection with your wife, and the sin would have been ours.
Genesis 26:20
But the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen, for they said, The spring is ours: so he gave the spring the name of Esek, because there was a fight about it.
But the herdmen of Gerar had a fight with Isaac's herdmen, for they said, The spring is ours: so he gave the spring the name of Esek, because there was a fight about it.
Psalms 37:3
Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.
Have faith in the Lord, and do good; be at rest in the land, and go after righteousness.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Ye shall keep my sabbaths,.... The seventh day sabbaths, and the seventh year sabbaths; especially the former are meant, in which religious worship was given to the one true and living God, and therefore the observance of them is strictly enjoined; and hence this law follows closely upon the former, though Aben Ezra restrains it to the sabbatical years, or seventh year sabbaths, as he applies the sanctuary in the following clause to the jubilee year, which is said to be holy, Leviticus 26:12; supposing that this refers unto and stands in strict connection with the laws of the preceding chapter, concerning the sabbatical, Leviticus 25:1, and jubilee years, Leviticus 25:8:
and reverence my sanctuary; by attending in it, and on the worship in it, with reverence and godly fear, see Leviticus 19:30;
I [am] the Lord; who had a right to such religious worship, and to command such things, in which he ought to be obeyed, his sabbaths kept, and sanctuary reverenced.
