KJV King James Version
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the LORD.
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Leviticus 19:30
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the LORD.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
WEB World English Bible
“‘You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Yahweh.
ASV American Standard Version
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Jehovah.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
My sabbaths ye do keep, and My sanctuary ye do reverence; I am Jehovah.
Surrounding context — Leviticus 19
27 Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
28 Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I [am] the LORD.
29 Do not prostitute thy daughter, to cause her to be a whore; lest the land fall to whoredom, and the land become full of wickedness.
30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the LORD.
31 Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I [am] the LORD your God.
32 Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I [am] the LORD.
33 And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him.
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Leviticus 26:2Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the LORD.Leviticus 19:3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I [am] the LORD your God.Ecclesiastes 5:1Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.Leviticus 16:2And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy [place] within the vail before the mercy seat, which [is] upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.2 Corinthians 6:16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in [them]; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.Exodus 20:8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.Matthew 21:13And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves.Psalm 89:7God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all [them that are] about him.Leviticus 10:3Then Moses said unto Aaron, This [is it] that the LORD spake, saying, I will be sanctified in them that come nigh me, and before all the people I will be glorified. And Aaron held his peace.Genesis 28:16-17And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the LORD is in this place; and I knew [it] not.1 Peter 4:17For the time [is come] that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if [it] first [begin] at us, what shall the end [be] of them that obey not the gospel of God?Leviticus 15:31Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that [is] among them.2 Chronicles 36:14Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house of the LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.2 Chronicles 33:7And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:John 2:15-16And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables;Ezekiel 9:6Slay utterly old [and] young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom [is] the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which [were] before the house.
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