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Exodus 20:11

Exodus 20:11 is verse 11 of Exodus chapter 20, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

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King James Version

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.

World English Bible

for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

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Exodus 20:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible

9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.

11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

12 Honor your father and mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

13 You shall not murder.

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Hebrew words

כִּ֣יforשֵֽׁשֶׁתsixיָמִים֩daysעָשָׂ֨הhe madeיְהוָ֜הYahwehאֶת<obj.>הַשָּׁמַ֣יִםthe heavensוְאֶתand <obj.>הָאָ֗רֶץthe earthאֶת<obj.>הַיָּם֙the seaוְאֶתand <obj.>כָּלallאֲשֶׁרthatבָּ֔ם[is] in <the> themוַיָּ֖נַחand he restedבַּיּ֣וֹםon the dayהַשְּׁבִיעִ֑י<the> seventhעַלthere-כֵּ֗ן-foreבֵּרַ֧ךְhe blessedיְהוָ֛הYahwehאֶת<obj.>י֥וֹם[the] day ofהַשַּׁבָּ֖תthe sabbathוַֽיְקַדְּשֵֽׁהוּand he set apart as holy it

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Exodus 31:17

It is a sign between Me and the Israelites forever; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’”

Genesis 2:2

And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.

Genesis 2:3

Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.

Psalms 95:4

In His hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to Him.

Psalms 95:5

The sea is His, for He made it, and His hands formed the dry land.

Psalms 95:6

O come, let us worship and bow down; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker.

Psalms 95:7

For He is our God, and we are the people of His pasture, the sheep under His care. Today, if you hear His voice,

Mark 2:27

Then Jesus declared, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

Mark 2:28

Therefore, the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath.”

Acts 20:7

On the first day of the week we came together to break bread. Since Paul was ready to leave the next day, he talked to them and kept on speaking until midnight.

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