King James Version
Deuteronomy 5:12 in the King James Version says “Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.” — study this verse from Deuteronomy chapter 5 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.”
Deuteronomy 5:12 · KJV
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, 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.
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“Keep”
H8104properly, to hedge about (as with thorns), i.e., guard; generally, to protect, attend to, etc
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
“day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“to sanctify”
H6942to be (causatively, make, pronounce or observe as) clean (ceremonially or morally)
who, which, what, that; also (as an adverb and a conjunction) when, where, how, because, in order that, etc
“it as the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
“thy God”
H430gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme god; occasionally applied by way of
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