The God of the Jews of the Old Testament (OT) is the same God of the Gentiles of the New Testament (NT), and He says He never changes. What this means is that God’s commandments of the OT have never been discarded to make way for the new commandments of Jesus. Revelations, which speak of end times, actually points to this fact as a sign of Gods people…
Rev 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
So you can see that it is only those who keep God’s commandment are saved. The testimony (faith) of Jesus is no more or no less than Gods commandments. Jesus simply confirms them.
The early false church changed the Sabbath to Sunday to appease Constantine the Emperor of Rome so they could win his favor. Of course because he was a sun worshiper, his Sabbath was Sunday.
Mat 15:9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
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Ex 31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
Please remember, all those in Christ are the new spiritual Israel.
The Sabbath is defined in the Bible as the seventh day of the week, which is Saturday. Dictionaries of the English language define Saturday as the 7th day of the week. Some have argued that changes to the calendar make it impossible to know which day is truly Saturday, but that is false. Calendar changes have simply changed the numbering of the days on the calendar but have never changed or altered the sequence of the days of the week since the creation of life upon this planet. Monday continued to follow Sunday, and so on. No days of the weekly cycle were skipped. The 7 day cycle of days has never changed
There are those who say that the feast Sabbaths were done away with at the cross, and they are right about that because they pointed forward in time to Christ and what he would accomplish here on earth. Col 2:16-17 says “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon, or of the Sabbath days:
which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.” Those things spoken of here include all things that point directly forwards to Christ, which includes the feast Sabbaths for it does say “…which are a shadow of things to come” in reference to the things just listed. Anybody who has studied the ceremonial and sacrificial laws, which included the feast Sabbaths in connection with them, will know that they clearly point forward to the life, death, and ministry of Jesus.
The Seventh-day Sabbath of the Sabbath commandment was not done away with by the cross, however, because it, by its very definition as stated in the Sabbath commandment itself, NEVER pointed forwards in time to Christ and his work here on earth. God created it at the time of creation of life upon this earth and set it up as a memorial of creation and of his creative power. Hence, as stated in the Sabbath Commandment, the commandment Sabbath points backwards in time to creation, not forwards. This is in contrast to the feast Sabbaths, which pointed forwards to Jesus and his life, death, and ministry. The only logical conclusion is that Colossians 2:16-17 is referring to the feast Sabbaths, not the 7th day Sabbath. It CANNOT include the commandment Sabbath. They are mutually exclusive by their very definitions.
There are those who point out that God set aside the 7th day Sabbath at creation, but there is no record of any command to keep that day until the Israelites heard God pronounce it from Mount Sinai. So, some argue that this means there was no requirement to keep it before Mount Sinai. This is false reasoning. The Sabbath commandment is part of the 10 commandments (the Sabbath was set up by God at Creation Week as recorded in the creation story), even if not recorded as a command before Mount Sinai.
Here is how the author knows that absolutely must be true. Consider that before Mount Sinai there is no record of a command from God not to steal from your neighbour, but does that mean that before Mount Sinai, people could freely take from others without permission and not be guilty of sin by stealing? There is no record of a command not to murder, yet the story of Cain and Abel makes it abundantly clear that what Cain did to Abel broke the law of God. God was greatly displeased with Cain for his act. In the same law that says “Thou shall not murder”, is the command to “Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy…the Seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God” (which makes God the Lord of the Sabbath, by the way, just as Jesus said he was – see Luke 6:5). So, at some point in the Garden of Eden, God must have explained his law to Adam and Eve, though we have no written record of that. If that were not true, how could they be accountable for sin? Where there is no law, there is no sin (Rom 4:15 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.). Think about this as you study the texts below.
There is one other common mistake people make about this. They claim that the Sabbath was done away with at the cross because we are now in a new covenant. That is false reasoning. Jesus Himself proved this, and here is how:
Mat 24:15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
Mat 24:16 Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains:
Mat 24:17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
Mat 24:18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
Mat 24:19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Mat 24:20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the Sabbath day:
Now, if you understand these verses, it is a clear reference to the siege and invasion of the city of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD – long after the cross and long after the writings of Paul. Clearly 70 AD is well within the new covenant time frame. Here Jesus is speaking to the Christians, not the Jews. The Jews would have long since rejected Him by 70 AD and the only audience He could possibly have addressed this statement to would have been the Christians who happened to be in Jerusalem at the time of the Roman siege and invasion of the city. Hence, He is saying here that the Sabbath is still in effect long after the cross and He expected Christians to be keeping it. These are the words of Jesus Himself. There is no higher authority.
One other thing about this statement by Jesus. There are those who teach that the day the Sabbath is to be kept on was to change after the cross. Now, if the day the Sabbath was to be kept on was to be changed by God after the cross, this would have been a golden opportunity to tell the world about it. Think about it. Here he is speaking to an audience for an event that was yet nearly 40 years into the future. What a great opportunity to tell them that they should pray that their flight not be on the first day of the week and then mention that in the future the Sabbath would be the first day of the week. Strange, isn’t it, that He did not do this? He could have! Why didn’t He? Think about these things as you read below.
Many say that they keep the first day of the week (Sunday) as the Sabbath in commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus. But there is no command in the Bible to do that. So, where is the justification from God to do this? It was the Roman Catholic Pope in conjunction with the emperor Constantine that gave that “command”, not God the Father or God the Son!
Which Day Is Right? The majority says that Sunday is the correct day.
Sabbath Vs Sunday
Sixty Bible Facts Concerning the Seventh Day
After working the first six days of the week in creating this earth, the great God rested on the seventh day. Genesis 2:1-3.
This stamped that day as God’s rest day, or Sabbath day, as Sabbath day means rest day. To illustrate: When a person is born on a certain day, that day thus becomes his birthday. So when God rested upon the seventh day, that day became His rest or Sabbath day.
Therefore the seventh day must always be God’s Sabbath day. Can you change your birthday from the day on which you were born, to one on which you were not born? No. It would be a lie. Neither can you change God’s rest day to a day on which He did not rest. Hence the seventh day is still God’s Sabbath day.
The Creator blessed the seventh day. Genesis 2:3
He sanctified the seventh day. Exodus 20:11
He made it the Sabbath day in the garden of Eden. Genesis 2:14
It was made before the fall; hence it is not a type; for types and “shadows of things to come” were not introduced till after the fall.
Jesus says it was made for man (Mark 2:27); that is, for the whole human race, as the word man is here unlimited; hence, for the Gentile as well as for the Jews. Isaiah 56:1-8
It is a memorial of creation. Exodus 20:11; Exodus 31:17. Every time we rest upon the seventh day, as God did at creation, we commemorate that grand event.
It was given to Adam, the head of the human race. Mark 2:27;.
Hence through him, as our representative, to all nations. Acts 17:26.
It is not a Jewish institution; for it was made 2,300 years before ever there was a Jew.
The Bible never calls it the Jewish Sabbath; but always, “the Sabbath of the Lord thy God.” Men should he cautious how they stigmatize God’s holy rest day.
Evident reference is made to the Sabbath all through the patriarchal age. Genesis 2:1-3; Genesis 2:8-12; Genesis 29:27-28, etc.
It was a part of God’s law before Sinai. Exodus 3:4,5; 16:4, 27-29.
Then God placed it in the heart of His moral law. Exodus 20:1-17. Why did He place it there if it was not like the other nine precepts, which all admit to be immutable and forever?
The seventh-day Sabbath was commanded by the voice of the living God. Deuteromony 4:12,13.
Then He wrote the commandment with His own finger. Exodus 31:18.
He engraved it in the enduring stone, indicating its imperishable nature. Deuteromony 5:22.
It was sacredly preserved in the ark in the holy of holies. Deuteromony 10:1-5.
God forbade work upon the Sabbath, even in the most hurrying times. Exodus 34:21.
God destroyed the Israelites in the wilderness because they profaned the Sabbath. Ezekiel 20: 12, 13.
It is the sign of the true God, by which we are to know Him from false gods. Ezekiel 20: 20.
God promised that Jerusalem should stand forever if the Jews would keep the Sabbath. Jeremiah 17: 24, 25.
He sent them into the Babylonish captivity for breaking it. Nehemiah 13:18.
He destroyed Jerusalem for its violation. Jeremiah 17: 27.
God has pronounced a special blessing on all the Gentiles who will keep it. Isaiah 56: 6, 7.
This is in the prophecy which refers wholly to the Christian dispensation. See Isaiah 56.
God has promised to bless any man who will keep the Sabbath. Isaiah 56: 2.
The Lord requires us to call it “honorable.” Isaiah 58: 12, 13. Beware, ye who take delight in calling it the “old Jewish Sabbath,” “a yoke of bondage,” etc.
After the holy Sabbath has been trodden down “many generations,” it is to be restored in the last days. Isaiah 58:12, 13.
All the holy prophets kept the seventh day.
When the Son of God came, He kept the seventh day all His life. Luke 4:16; John 15:10. Thus He followed his Father’s example at creation. Shall we not be safe in following the example of both the Father and the Son?
The seventh day is the Lord’s day. See Revelation 1:10; Mark 2: 28; Isaiah 58:13; Exodus 20:10.
Jesus was Lord of the Sabbath (Mark 2: 28); that is, to love and protect it, as the husband is the lord of the wife, to love and cherish her. I Peter 3: 6.
He vindicated the Sabbath as a merciful institution designed for man’s good. Mark 2: 23-28.
Instead of abolishing the Sabbath, He carefully taught how it should be observed. Matthew 12:1-13.
He taught His disciples that they should do nothing upon the Sabbath day but what was “lawful.” Matthew 12: 12.
He instructed His apostles that the Sabbath should be prayerfully regarded 40 years after His resurrection. Matthew 24:20.
The pious women who had been with Jesus carefully kept the seventh day after His death. Luke 23; 56.
Thirty years after Christ’s resurrection, the Holy Spirit expressly calls it “the Sabbath day.” Acts 13:14.
Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles, called it “the Sabbath day” in A.D. 45. Acts 13: 27. Did not Paul know? Or shall we believe modern teachers, who affirm that it ceased to be the Sabbath at the resurrection of Christ?
Luke, the inspired Christian historian, writing as late as A. D. 62, calls it “the Sabbath day.” Acts 13: 44.
The Gentile converts called it the Sabbath. Acts 13: 42.
In the great Christian council, A. D. 52, in the presence of the apostles and thousands of disciples, James calls it the “Sabbath day.” Acts 15: 21.
It was customary to hold prayer-meetings upon that day. Acts 16:13.
Paul read the Scriptures in public meetings on that day. Acts 17: 2, 3.
It was his custom to preach upon that day. Acts 17: 2.
The book of Acts alone gives a record of his holding eighty-four meetings upon that day. See Acts 13:14, 44; 16: 13; 17: 2; 18: 4, 11.
There was never any dispute between the early Christians and the Jews about the Sabbath day as recorded by Luke in the book of Acts. This is proof that the early Christians still observed the same day that the Jews did. As a matter of fact, the entire Christian world, with the exception of the Roman and Alexandrian churches, kept the seventh-day Sabbath well into the fourth century. Evidence indicates that the tradition to worship on Sunday began in Rome and Alexandria. A very prominent historian, writing about the year 385 A.D., says, “Although almost all churches throughout the world celebrate the sacred mysteries on the Sabbath of every week, yet the Christians of Alexandria and at Rome, on account of some ancient tradition, have ceased to do this.” Socrates Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History, Bk. V, Chapter 22.
In all their accusations against Paul, they never charged him with disregarding the Sabbath day. Why did they not if he did not keep it?
But Paul himself expressly declared that he had kept the law. “Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.” Acts 25: 8. How could this be true if he had not kept the Sabbath?
The Sabbath is mentioned in the New Testament 59 times, and always with respect, bearing the same title it had in the Old Testament, “the Sabbath day.”
Not a word is said anywhere in the New Testament about the Sabbath’s being abolished, done away, changed, or anything of the kind.
God has never given permission to any man to work upon it. Dear reader, by what authority do you use the seventh day for common labor?
No Christian of the New Testament, either before or after the resurrection, ever did ordinary work upon the seventh day. Find one case of that kind, and we will yield the question. Why should modern Christians do differently from Bible Christians?
There is no record that God has ever removed His blessing or sanctification from the seventh day.
As the Sabbath was kept in Eden before the fall, so it will be observed eternally in the new earth after the restitution. Isaiah 66:22, 23.
The seventh-day Sabbath was an important part of the law of God, as it came from His own mouth and was written by His own finger upon stone at Sinai. See Exodus 20. When Jesus began His work, He expressly declared that He had not come to destroy the law . “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets.” Matthew 5:17.
Jesus severely condemned the Pharisees as hypocrites for pretending to love God, while at the same time they made void one of the Ten Commandments by their tradition. The keeping of Sunday is only a tradition of men.
Anyone who wishes to investigate anything written from the Bible may look up texts to confirm for themselves what is written. Those who want to rely on the Bible alone to prove that Sunday is the day of the week for New Testament Christians to keep don’t have a long list of texts to examine. There are only eight instances in Scripture where the first day of the week is mentioned in the New Testament. Here they are:
look at them carefully.
Matthew 28:1
Mark 16:1,2
Mark 16:9
Luke 24:1
John 20:1
John 20:19
Acts 20:7,8
1 Corinthians 16:1,2
The first five texts simply state that the women came to the sepulchre early on the resurrection morning, and that Jesus had already risen. The tomb was empty! Now look at John 20:19. It says that Jesus appeared to the disciples later on resurrection day. More importantly, it says that the reason they were assembled was “for fear of the jews”, not because of any change in the day of worship. They were simply scared. They were hiding.
They had seen their beloved Master die on Friday. They returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the Sabbath day according to the commandment.” Luke 23:56. And now they’re hiding “for fear of the Jews.” John 20:19. There’s no mention of a change of the day of worship by Jesus or the disciples.
The seventh text is Acts 20:7,8. It says “”and upon the first day Of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together.” This was a night meeting – the dark part of the first day of the week. In Bible reckoning, the dark part of the day comes before the light part. Genesis 1:5 “and God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.” The Bible reckons a day from sunset to sunset. The seventh day begins on sunset Friday evening. The first day of the week begins sunset Saturday evening. Paul is together with his friends on the dark part of the first day of the week – Saturday night. This is a farewell meeting. He preached until midnight, when Eutychus falls out the window. Acts 20:9. God spared his life. Verse eleven says that they talked until sunrise and then Paul departed. Verse thirteen shows that Paul spent that Sunday morning traveling to Assos. There’s nothing here either concerning a change of the Sabbath. The New English Bible translates this text “On the Saturday night, in our assembly for the breaking of bread, Paul, who was to leave the next day, addressed them, and went on speaking until midnight,” Acts 20:7. The breaking of bread in this case did no symbolize the Lord’s Supper, it simply meant they had a farewell meal together.
The last text mentions the first day of the week in I Corinthians 16:1,2 “Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him, that there be no gatherings when I come.” Verse three tells that he will bring the offering to Jerusalem. Paul is requesting of those in Corinth to have a collection ready when he came to take to the poor saints in Jerusalem. There’s nothing in the text about a church service, but each person is to “lay by him in store.” the first of the week was the best time for the people to set some money aside because later in the week it would be spent This is an example of systematic benevolence. Paul requested this so that “there be no gatherings when I come.” I Corinthians 16:2. There’s nothing in this text either about a change of God’s Sabbath to Sunday.
That then, was Paul’s custom? Here it is, “And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the scriptures.” Acts 17.2.
Jesus, as our example also had the custom of attending church on Saturday, the seventh day. Luke 4:.16).
History of the Sabbath from John the Revelator until 1798
his section covers the time period from the writing of the Book of Revelation (around 100 A.D.) until 1798 A.D. It is difficult to find anything written during this period to contradict the custom which says that Sunday is the correct day for Christians to keep. Difficult, but not impossible. And, just because the majority of Christians do it doesn’t make it right. In fact, when was there a time of crisis in the Bible when the majority was right? There have been Sabbathkeepers throughout the centuries, and this section will discuss this issue.
The Church in the Wilderness
he Waldenses, otherwise known as the Church in the Wilderness, existed from around 325 A.D. onward. The medieval church would like us to believe that the Waldenses started with a man named Peter Waldo in Lyons, France, around 1175 A.D. However, rebellion against the Roman power was always in existence. For the two hundred years after the apostles died until the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. there were disagreements between Bible-believing Christians and the group that would become the Catholic Church. The Council of Nicea gave Silvester great recognition as the Bishop of Rome. The Church in the Wilderness rejected this claim completely.
“But it was not without some foundation of truth that the Waldenses of this period asserted the high antiquity of their sect, and maintained that from the time of the secularization of the church- that is, as they believed, from the time of Constantine’s gift to the Roman bishop Silvester {A.D. 314-336}–such an opposition as finally broke forth from them, had been existing all along.” Neander, General History of the Christian Religion and Church, 5th period, sec. 4, p. 605, as quoted in Truth Triumphant, p.216.
Patmos is the island where John the Revelator was living when he wrote the book of Revelation approximately 95 A.D. to 97 A.D. There is a monastery there now. Nowhere in the Book of Revelation does it say the Sabbath was changed by God. Nowhere does it say that John or any disciples of Jesus changed the day of worship! It predicts a change in many places, such as 2 Thessalonians 2:5-9, but this change is man-made by the “mystery of iniquity”, and not by God.
Christianity took root on the Malabar coast (now Kerala, India) in the first century AD around the seven churches that St. Thomas established there. Christian faith has since flourished across the land, coexisting with other religions. ….And it was on a trading vessel plying between Alexandria and the Malabar coast that St. Thomas the Apostle arrived in Cranganore in 52 AD. There he began preaching the Gospel….The Church in Kerala had a high missionary spirit. Christians from Malabar spread their faith as far as Maldives and Indonesia. Source: Catholic vs Syrian church
The Persian sun god, Mithra. Sunday was dedicated to Mithra, (lord), and was given the title of “The Lord’s Day”.
isentis was a community high in the Swiss Alps, north of St. Moritz, Switzerland. It was the site of a Celtic, Sabbath- keeping school. Disentis, Switzerland today can be seen at http://www.disentis.ch/Deu/indexD.htm.
Iona is a small island off the Scottish coast. It’s spiritual leader, Columba (521-597 A.D), founded a Bible training school. He and his followers kept the Sabbath here. The mission school functioned for over 600 years, sending missionaries to Scotland, Whales, England, and Europe. It is said that when Columba died, his tomb stone was made from the stone on which he rested his head as he slept. A stone called ‘St Columba’s Pillow’ was unearthed in 1870 by a man whose cart bumped over the stone regularly – until he finally dug it up. The stone can be seen in the Abbey museum. The nunnery was abandoned during the Reformation and never used again. Despite surviving many attacks from Vikings several centuries before, the Abbey was unable to escape the effects of the Reformation, and in 1560 and was left derelict. It remained so until, in 1899, when refurbishing began. Reference at http://www.isle-of-iona.com/burials.htm
Remains of grave stones of 6th century Celtic Sabbathkeepers in Anagray, France. The grave stones are on the site of a mission school founded by Columbanus (543 A.D. – 615 A.D.), who died in Bobbio, Italy. Columbanus was a Sabbath-keeper, who evangelized in France, Germany, Switzerland, and Italy. “The Irish foundations in Germany and north Italy became the chief book-producing center on the Continent”, Fitzpatrick, Ireland and the Foundations of Europe, page 24, as quoted in Truth Triumphant, p. 192.
Begun in the 6th Century, this monastery became one of the intellectual centers of Ireland until 1214 A.D. “It seems to have been customary in the Celtic churches of early times, in Ireland as well as Scotland, to keep Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath, as a day of rest from labor. They obeyed the fourth commandment literally upon the seventh day of the week.” The Church in Scotland p. 140.
Emperor Charlemagne’s throne. Charlemagne was the first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, beginning in 800 A.D. His throne is on the second floor in the church in Aachen, Germany. It faces the altar, and also faces the east. It is said that he (Charlemagne) wanted to see Jesus when he came, so he had the throne facing the east. The throne, incidentally, is made of solid rock. This began a period where the church and state were interchangeable. The church used its influence on kings to control their “subjects”. This was the case for about 1,000 years.
Pope Gregory VII became pope in 1073 A.D. and immediately tightened control over Europe. He rigidly enforced celibacy and brought the princes of Europe under his control. He made Emperor Henry IV (picture opposite) stand barefooted and bare-headed in the snow in the outer court of Canossa for three days before seeing him. Some clergy at the time were married, and he put a stop to that and made the priesthood celibate from that time on. His harsh ways actually hastened the Protestant Reformation. Truth Triumphant, B.G. Wilkinson, Ph.D., TEACH Services, Inc., Brushton, NY, 1994, p. 235.
The cathedral in Albi, France is the largest brick building in the world. The information put out about it says that it was built between 1282 and 1480. “Built by Christian loyalists as a defense against the Cathare Heresy starting in the 13th century, the cathedral is a masterpiece of meridional gothic architecture. One can easily see that she was originally intended to be a fortress.” The truth of the matter is that the so-called “Cathare Heresy” consisted of the punishment of Bible-believing Sabbath-keepers.
The Albigensians were slaughtered by the medieval church mercilessly between 1211 A.D. and 1215 A.D. These people were Waldenses who lived in the area of Albi, France, hence the name Albigensians. At least 100,000 men, women, and children, some mere babies were slaughtered because they wouldn’t obey Rome. Voltaire says in Additions to Ancient and Modern History, vol. 29, pp.227,242 “Those who were called Manichaeans, and those who were afterward named Albigenses, Vaudois, Lollards, and who appeared so often under different names, were remnants of the first Gaulish Christians, who were attached to several ancient customs, which the Church of Rome thought proper to alter afterward.” One of these customs, of course, was the Sabbath!
Carcasonne is the most prominent castle in southern France. A good-sized picture reveals its breathtaking size. It is 480 miles due south of Paris, France. Named after Acfred II (C of Carcasonne), who died in 934/5 A.D., most fortifications were built in the 13th century at the king’s direction. It makes a lovely and breathtaking tourist stop. However, what many don’t know, is that it houses the largest collection of torture instruments in the world. It was used in the Inquisition. Although the exact original of the English word carcass cannot be verified, it isn’t hard to imagine where the word came from.
Seventh Day Sabbath verses Listing:
Below is listed every single verse in the bible where the words “Sabbath”, “Sabbaths”, “seventh” or “Lord’s day” occurs where it may have any connection with the 7th day Sabbath found in the 10 commandments. For completeness, this includes the feast Sabbaths that the Israelites were commanded to keep, which are not the same as the Seventh-day Sabbath that is part of the 10 commandments. There are some things about the Seventh-day Sabbath that can be learned from the feast Sabbaths.
Genesis 2:2 – And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
Genesis 2:3 – And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Exodus 16:23 – And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, Tomorrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake today, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
Exodus 16:25 – And Moses said, Eat that today; for today is a sabbath unto the LORD: today ye shall not find it in the field.
Exodus 16:26 – Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
Exodus 16:27 – And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.
Exodus 16:29 – See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
Exodus 16:30 – So the people rested on the seventh day.
Exodus 20:8 – Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exodus 20:10 – 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:
Exodus 20:11 – 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.
Exodus 31:13 – Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
Exodus 31:14 – Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Exodus 31:15 – Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
Exodus 31:16 – Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
Exodus 31:17 – It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
Exodus 34:21 – Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
Exodus 35:2 – Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.
Exodus 35:3 – Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
Leviticus 19:3 – Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I am the LORD your God.
Leviticus 19:30 – Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 23:3 – Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
Leviticus 24:8 – Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.
Leviticus 26:2 – Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.
Numbers 15:32 – And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
Deuteronomy 5:12 – Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
Deuteronomy 5:14 – 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, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Deuteronomy 5:15 – And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the LORD thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
2 Kings 4:23 – And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him today? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
2 Kings 11:4 – And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house of the LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of the LORD, and showed them the king’s son.
2 Kings 11:5 – And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king’s house;
2 Kings 11:7 – And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house of the LORD about the king.
2 Kings 11:9 – And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
1 Chronicles 9:32 – And other of their brethren, of the sons of the Kohathites, were over the shewbread, to prepare it every sabbath.
2 Chronicles 23:4 – This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you entering on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the doors;
2 Chronicles 23:8 – So the Levites and all Judah did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest had commanded, and took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that were to go out on the sabbath: for Jehoiada the priest dismissed not the courses.
2 Chronicles 31:3 – He appointed also the king’s portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.
Nehemiah 9:14 – And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
Nehemiah 10:31 – And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
Nehemiah 10:33 – For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
Nehemiah 13:15 – In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
Nehemiah 13:16 – There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
Nehemiah 13:17 – Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
Nehemiah 13:18 – Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.
Nehemiah 13:19 – And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the gates should be shut, and charged that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I at the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.
Nehemiah 13:21 – Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.
Nehemiah 13:22 – And I commanded the Levites that they should cleanse themselves, and that they should come and keep the gates, to sanctify the sabbath day. Remember me, O my God, concerning this also, and spare me according to the greatness of thy mercy.
Psalms 92:1 – A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
Isaiah 1:13 – Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Isaiah 56:2 – Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.
Isaiah 56:4 – For thus saith the LORD unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me, and take hold of my covenant;
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;
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, honorable; and shalt honor him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Isaiah 66:23 – And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 17:21 – Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
Jeremiah 17:22 – Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work, but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.
Jeremiah 17:24 – And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith the LORD, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;
Jeremiah 17:27 – But if ye will not hearken unto me to hallow the sabbath day, and not to bear a burden, even entering in at the gates of Jerusalem on the sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates thereof, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
Lamentations 1:7 – Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
Ezekiel 20:12 – Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
Ezekiel 20:13 – But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they walked not in my statutes, and they despised my judgments, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; and my sabbaths they greatly polluted: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them in the wilderness, to consume them.
Ezekiel 20:16 – Because they despised my judgments, and walked not in my statutes, but polluted my sabbaths: for their heart went after their idols.
Ezekiel 20:20 – And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
Ezekiel 20:21 – Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.
Ezekiel 20:24 – Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.
Ezekiel 22:8 – Thou hast despised mine holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.
Ezekiel 22:26 – Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
Ezekiel 23:38 – Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.
Ezekiel 44:24 – And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.
Ezekiel 46:1 – Thus saith the Lord GOD; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.
Ezekiel 46:3 – Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.
Ezekiel 46:4 – And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the LORD in the sabbath day shall be six lambs without blemish, and a ram without blemish.
Ezekiel 46:12 – Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering or peace offerings voluntarily unto the LORD, one shall then open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going forth one shall shut the gate.
Amos 8:5 – Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Matthew 12:1 – At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were hungry, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.
Matthew 12:2 – But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.
Matthew 12:5 – Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are blameless
Matthew 12:8 – For the Son of man is Lord even of the sabbath day.
Matthew 12:10 – And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
Matthew 12:11 – And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
Matthew 12:12 – How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Matthew 24:20 – But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
Matthew 28:1 – In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher.
Mark 1:21 – And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.
Mark 2:23 – And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.
Mark 2:24 – And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?
Mark 2:27 – And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
Mark 2:28 – Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
Mark 3:2 – And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
Mark 3:4 – And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
Mark 6:2 – And when the sabbath day was come, he began to teach in the synagogue: and many hearing him were astonished, saying, From whence hath this man these things? and what wisdom is this which is given unto him, that even such mighty works are wrought by his hands?
Mark 15:42 – And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,
Mark 16:1 – And when the sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James, and Salome, had bought sweet spices, that they might come and anoint him.
Luke 4:16 – And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read.
Luke 4:31 – And came down to Capernaum, a city of Galilee, and taught them on the sabbath days.
Luke 6:1 – And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.
Luke 6:2 – And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days
Luke 6:5 – And he said unto them, That the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
Luke 6:6 – And it came to pass also on another sabbath, that he entered into the synagogue and taught: and there was a man whose right hand was withered.
Luke 6:7 – And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.
Luke 6:9 – Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?
Luke 13:10 – And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath.
Luke 13:14 – And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
Luke 13:15 – The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?
Luke 13:16 – And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
Luke 14:1 – And it came to pass, as he went into the house of one of the chief Pharisees to eat bread on the sabbath day, that they watched him.
Luke 14:3 – And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day?
Luke 14:5 – And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?
Luke 23:54 – And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
Luke 23:56 – And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
John 5:9 – And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.
John 5:10 – The Jews therefore said unto him that was cured, It is the sabbath day: it is not lawful for thee to carry thy bed.
John 5:16 – And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.
John 5:18 – Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
John 7:22 – Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.
John 7:23 – If a man on the sabbath day receive circumcision, that the law of Moses should not be broken; are ye angry at me, because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath day?
John 9:14 – And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
John 9:16 – Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
John 19:31 – The Jews therefore, because it was the preparation, that the bodies should not remain upon the cross on the sabbath day, (for that sabbath day was a high day,) besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.
Acts 1:12 – Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the mount called Olivet, which is from Jerusalem a sabbath day’s journey.
Acts 13:14 – But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.
Acts 13:27 – For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
Acts 13:42 – And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next sabbath.
Acts 13:44 – And the next sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God.
Acts 15:21 – For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.
Acts 16:13 – And on the sabbath we went out of the city by a river side, where prayer was wont to be made; and we sat down, and spake unto the women which resorted thither.
Acts 17:2 – And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures,
Acts 18:4 – And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded the Jews and the Greeks.
Colossians 2:16 – Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
Hebrews 4:4 – For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
Revelation 1:10 – I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
Verses Relating to the Feast Days or Other Ceremonial Days Other than the 7th Day Sabbath:
Note that some of the verses below have application to both the 7th day Sabbath and the feast or ceremonial Sabbaths.
Exodus 12:15 – Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
Exodus 12:16 – And in the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
Exodus 13:6 – Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to the LORD.
Exodus 23:11 – But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.
Exodus 23:12 – Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
Leviticus 16:29 – And this shall be a statute forever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
Leviticus 16:31 – It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute forever.
Leviticus 23:8 – But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD seven days: in the seventh day is a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Leviticus 23:11 – And he shall wave the sheaf before the LORD, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.
Leviticus 23:15 – And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the sabbath, from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave offering; seven sabbaths shall be complete:
Leviticus 23:16 – Even unto the morrow after the seventh sabbath shall ye number fifty days; and ye shall offer a new meat offering unto the LORD.
Leviticus 23:24 – Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
Leviticus 23:27 – Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be a holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Leviticus 23:32 – It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.
Leviticus 23:34 – Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, The fifteenth day of this seventh month shall be the feast of tabernacles for seven days unto the LORD.
Leviticus 23:38 – Beside the sabbaths of the LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
Leviticus 23:39 – Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.
Leviticus 23:41 – And ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD seven days in the year. It shall be a statute forever in your generations: ye shall celebrate it in the seventh month.
Leviticus 25:2 – Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto the LORD.
Leviticus 25:4 – But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the LORD: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Leviticus 25:6 – And the sabbath of the land shall be meat for you; for thee, and for thy servant, and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant, and for thy stranger that sojourneth with thee,
Leviticus 25:8 – And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
Leviticus 25:9 – Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
Leviticus 25:20 – And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase:
Leviticus 26:34 – Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye be in your enemies’ land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.
Leviticus 26:35 – As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.
Leviticus 26:43 – The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their soul abhorred my statutes.
Numbers 28:9 – And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:
Numbers 28:10 – This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers 28:25 – And on the seventh day ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.
Numbers 29:1 – And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.
Numbers 29:7 – And ye shall have on the tenth day of this seventh month a holy convocation; and ye shall afflict your souls: ye shall not do any work therein:
Numbers 29:12 – And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work, and ye shall keep a feast unto the LORD seven days:
Deuteronomy 16:8 – Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.
1 Chronicles 23:31 – And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the LORD in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the LORD:
2 Chronicles 2:4 – Behold, I build a house to the name of the LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the LORD our God. This is an ordinance forever to Israel.
2 Chronicles 8:13 – Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
2 Chronicles 31:3 – He appointed also the king’s portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law of the LORD.
2 Chronicles 36:21 – To fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfill threescore and ten years.
Nehemiah 10:33 – For the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.
Isaiah 1:13 – Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
Lamentations 2:6 – And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Ezekiel 45:17 – And it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 46:3 – Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of this gate before the LORD in the sabbaths and in the new moons.
Hosea 2:11 – I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
First Day of the Week Verses Listing:
Below are all verses in the New Testament containing the phrase “first day”. As you should be able to see by careful examination, none of these are an example of keeping holy the first day of the week, though in some instances they did hold worship services on that day of the week. That does not make the day holy or a substitute for the 7th day Sabbath according to God’s command.
Matthew 26:17 – Now the first day of the feast of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying unto him, Where wilt thou that we prepare for thee to eat the passover?
Matthew 28:1 – In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulcher.
Mark 14:12 – And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?
Mark 16:2 – And very early in the morning the first day of the week, they came unto the sepulcher at the rising of the sun.
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