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Exodus 31:16 (NIV)

The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant.

Ezekiel 22:10 (NIV)

In you are those who dishonor their father’s bed; in you are those who violate women during their period, when they are ceremonially unclean.

Exodus 31:14 (NIV)

“ ‘Observe the Sabbath, because it is holy to you. Anyone who desecrates it is to be put to death; those who do any work on that day must be cut off from their people.

Isaiah 56:5 (NIV)

to them I will give within my temple and its walls a memorial and a name better than sons and daughters; I will give them an everlasting name that will endure forever.

Ezekiel 20:18 (NIV)

I said to their children in the wilderness, “Do not follow the statutes of your parents or keep their laws or defile yourselves with their idols.

Ezekiel 22:11 (NIV)

In you one man commits a detestable offense with his neighbor’s wife, another shamefully defiles his daughter-in-law, and another violates his sister, his own father’s daughter.

In you are people who accept bribes to shed blood; you take interest and make a profit from the poor. You extort unjust gain from your neighbors. And you have forgotten me, declares the Sovereign Lord .

Exodus 31:17 (NIV)

It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’ ”

Exodus 31:15 (NIV)

For six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, holy to the Lord . Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.

Ezekiel 20:26 (NIV)

I defiled them through their gifts—the sacrifice of every firstborn—that I might fill them with horror so they would know that I am the Lord .’

2 Chronicles 2:4 (NIV)

Now I am about to build a temple for the Name of the Lord my God and to dedicate it to him for burning fragrant incense before him, for setting out the consecrated bread regularly, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening and on the Sabbaths, at the New Moons and at the appointed festivals of the Lord our God. This is a lasting ordinance for Israel.

Hosea 2:11 (NIV)

I will stop all her celebrations: her yearly festivals, her New Moons, her Sabbath days—all her appointed festivals.

Isaiah 1:13 (NIV)

Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations— I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.

Leviticus 26:34 (NIV)

Then the land will enjoy its sabbath years all the time that it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

Leviticus 26:35 (NIV)

All the time that it lies desolate, the land will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths you lived in it.

Leviticus 26:3 (NIV)

“ ‘If you follow my decrees and are careful to obey my commands,

Leviticus 19:2 (NIV)

“Speak to the entire assembly of Israel and say to them: ‘Be holy because I, the Lord your God, am holy.

Leviticus 19:29 (NIV)

“ ‘Do not degrade your daughter by making her a prostitute, or the land will turn to prostitution and be filled with wickedness.

Leviticus 19:31 (NIV)

“ ‘Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 19:4 (NIV)

“ ‘Do not turn to idols or make metal gods for yourselves. I am the Lord your God.

Leviticus 26:1 (NIV)

“ ‘Do not make idols or set up an image or a sacred stone for yourselves, and do not place a carved stone in your land to bow down before it. I am the Lord your God.

Ezekiel 20:17 (NIV)

Yet I looked on them with pity and did not destroy them or put an end to them in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 23:37 (NIV)

for they have committed adultery and blood is on their hands. They committed adultery with their idols; they even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to me, as food for them.

Ezekiel 44:25 (NIV)

“ ‘A priest must not defile himself by going near a dead person; however, if the dead person was his father or mother, son or daughter, brother or unmarried sister, then he may defile himself.

Ezekiel 44:23 (NIV)

They are to teach my people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to distinguish between the unclean and the clean.