Ezekiel 20:20
New International Version
Keep my Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us. Then you will know that I am the LORD your God.”

New Living Translation
and keep my Sabbath days holy, for they are a sign to remind you that I am the LORD your God.’

English Standard Version
and keep my Sabbaths holy that they may be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’

Berean Standard Bible
Keep My Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’

King James Bible
And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.

New King James Version
hallow My Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’

New American Standard Bible
Sanctify My Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’

NASB 1995
‘Sanctify My sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’

NASB 1977
‘And sanctify My sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’

Legacy Standard Bible
Keep My sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.’

Amplified Bible
Sanctify My Sabbaths and keep them holy; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know [without any doubt] that I am the LORD your God.’

Christian Standard Bible
Keep my Sabbaths holy, and they will be a sign between me and you, so you may know that I am the LORD your God.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Keep My Sabbaths holy, and they will be a sign between Me and you, so you may know that I am Yahweh your God.”

American Standard Version
and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And hallow my Sabbaths, and they shall be signs between me and you, and you shall know that I AM LORD JEHOVAH your God

Brenton Septuagint Translation
and hallow my sabbaths, and let them be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.

Contemporary English Version
I told them to respect my Sabbath to show that they were my people and that I was the LORD their God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And sanctify my sabbaths, that they may be a sign between me and you: and that you may know that I am the Lord your God.

English Revised Version
and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Set apart certain holy days to worship me. This will be a sign between me and you so that you will know that I am the LORD your God."

Good News Translation
Make the Sabbath a holy day, so that it will be a sign of the covenant we made, and will remind you that I am the LORD your God.

International Standard Version
You are to make my Sabbaths holy, and you are to let them serve as a sign between you and me, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.'"

JPS Tanakh 1917
and hallow My sabbaths, and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.

Literal Standard Version
And sanctify My Sabbaths, | And they have been for a sign between Me and you, | To know that I [am] your God YHWH.

Majority Standard Bible
Keep My Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’

New American Bible
keep holy my sabbaths as a sign between me and you so that you may know that I am the LORD, your God.

NET Bible
Treat my Sabbaths as holy and they will be a reminder of our relationship, and then you will know that I am the LORD your God."

New Revised Standard Version
and hallow my sabbaths that they may be a sign between me and you, so that you may know that I the LORD am your God.

New Heart English Bible
and make my Sabbaths holy; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.'

Webster's Bible Translation
And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.

World English Bible
Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.’

Young's Literal Translation
And My sabbaths sanctify, And they have been for a sign between Me and you, To know that I, Jehovah, am your God.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Israel's Rebellion in the Wilderness
19I am the LORD your God; walk in My statutes, keep My ordinances, and practice them. 20 Keep My Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’ 21But the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.…

Cross References
Exodus 31:13
"Tell the Israelites, 'Surely you must keep My Sabbaths, for this will be a sign between Me and you for the generations to come, so that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

Isaiah 56:2
Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil."

Jeremiah 17:22
You must not carry a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day, but you must keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your forefathers.

Jeremiah 17:24
If, however, you listen carefully to Me, says the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and keep the Sabbath day holy, and do no work on it,

Ezekiel 20:12
I also gave them My Sabbaths as a sign between us, so that they would know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

Ezekiel 20:26
And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts--the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire--so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.

Ezekiel 44:24
In any dispute, they shall officiate as judges and judge according to My ordinances. They must keep My laws and statutes regarding all My appointed feasts, and they must keep My Sabbaths holy.


Treasury of Scripture

And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am the LORD your God.

Ezekiel 20:12
Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.

Ezekiel 44:24
And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

Exodus 20:11
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.

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Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Keep My Sabbaths
שַׁבְּתוֹתַ֖י (šab·bə·ṯō·w·ṯay)
Noun - common plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 7676: Intermission, the Sabbath

holy,
קַדֵּ֑שׁוּ (qad·dê·šū)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 6942: To be set apart or consecrated

and they will be
וְהָי֤וּ (wə·hā·yū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

a sign
לְאוֹת֙ (lə·’ō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Noun - common singular
Strong's 226: A signal, as a, flag, beacon, monument, omen, prodigy, evidence

between us,
בֵּינִ֣י (bê·nî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's 996: An interval, space between

so that you may know
לָדַ֕עַת (lā·ḏa·‘aṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 3045: To know

that
כִּ֛י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

I
אֲנִ֥י (’ă·nî)
Pronoun - first person common singular
Strong's 589: I

am the LORD
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

your God.”
אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ (’ĕ·lō·hê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative


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