Exo 20:8-11, 31:13-17, 36:2-3, Deu 5:12-15, Neh 13:15-22, Isa 56:2-6 | ESV | STEP | Remember the Sabbath day , to keep it holy .

8 ^a“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 ^bSix days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the ^cseventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the ^dsojourner who is within your gates. 11 For ^ein six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Exodus 31:13-17

13 “You are to speak to the people of Israel and say, ‘Above all you shall keep my Sabbaths, for this is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I, the Lord, sanctify you. 14 You shall keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you. Everyone who profanes it shall be put to death. ^fWhoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 15 ^gSix days shall work be done, but ^hthe seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord. ⁱWhoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death. 16 Therefore the people of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, observing the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a covenant forever. 17 ^jIt is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that ^kin six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and ^lon the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’”

Exodus 36:2-3

2 And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the Lord had put skill, everyone ^mwhose heart stirred him up to come to do the work. 3 And they received from Moses all the ⁿcontribution that the people of Israel had brought for doing the work on the sanctuary. They still kept bringing him ^ofreewill offerings every morning,

Deuteronomy 5:12-15

12 “‘Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. 13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14 but ^pthe seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, ^qthat your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15 ^rYou shall remember that you were a slave ^{▼▼Or servant} in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there ^twith a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

Nehemiah 13:15-22

15 In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses ^uon the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, ^vwhich they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And ^wI warned them on the day when they sold food. 16 Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of goods and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah, in Jerusalem itself! 17 ^xThen I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, ^yprofaning the Sabbath day? 18 ^zDid not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster ^{▼▼The Hebrew word can mean evil, harm, or disaster, depending on the context} on us and on this city? Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”

19 As soon as it ^abbegan to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day. 20 Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice. 21 ^acBut I warned them and said to them, “Why do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath. 22 Then I commanded the Levites ^adthat they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the Sabbath day holy. ^aeRemember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love.

Isaiah 56:2-6

2 Blessed is the man who does this,
and the son of man who holds it fast,
^afwho keeps the Sabbath, not profaning it,
and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
3 Let not ^agthe foreigner who has joined himself to the Lord say,
“The Lord will surely separate me from his people”;
and let not the eunuch say,
“Behold, I am ^aha dry tree.”
4 For thus says the Lord:
“To the eunuchs ^aiwho keep my Sabbaths,
who choose the things that please me
and hold fast my covenant,
5 ^ajI will give in my house and within my walls
a ^akmonument and a name
better than sons and daughters;
^alI will give them an everlasting name
that shall not be cut off.
6 “And ^amthe foreigners who join themselves to the Lord,
to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord,
and to be his servants,
everyone ^anwho keeps the Sabbath and does not profane it,
and holds fast my covenant—