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Rest & sabbath in the Bible

Sabbath, rest for the soul and God's appointed pause.

590 King James verses match this subject. The chapters below hold the heaviest concentration of them, so you can read each passage where it actually sits.

Chapters to read

Matched on the words themselves in the King James text. Where a word is also a name, it can point to more than one person or place, so read the chapter to see which.

Leviticus 2312 VERSES

Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

Exodus 166 VERSES

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 203 VERSES

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 315 VERSES

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.

Matthew 128 VERSES

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?

Leviticus 136 VERSES

And the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if the plague in his sight be at a stay, and the plague spread not in the skin; then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:

Jeremiah 175 VERSES

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.

Deuteronomy 53 VERSES

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.

Exodus 232 VERSES

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.

Genesis 22 VERSES

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.

Nehemiah 137 VERSES

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.

Hebrews 48 VERSES

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.

Exodus 352 VERSES

Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.

Numbers 294 VERSES

And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.

Esther 95 VERSES

On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same rested they, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

Leviticus 256 VERSES

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.

Luke 66 VERSES

And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?

Ezekiel 464 VERSES

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.

Numbers 192 VERSES

He shall purify himself with it on the third day, and on the seventh day he shall be clean: but if he purify not himself the third day, then the seventh day he shall not be clean.

Judges 143 VERSES

And she wept before him the seven days, while their feast lasted: and it came to pass on the seventh day, that he told her, because she lay sore upon him: and she told the riddle to the children of her people.

Acts 135 VERSES

But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.

John 54 VERSES

And immediately the man was made whole, and took up his bed, and walked: and on the same day was the sabbath.

Genesis 83 VERSES

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

Luke 143 VERSES

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.

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