Bible: Exodus 31:14-17; 35:2-3
31:14 So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you. Everyone who defiles it 1 must surely be put to death; indeed, 2 if anyone does 3 any 4 work on it, then that person will be cut off from among his 5 people. 31:15 Six days 6 work may be done, 7 but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, 8 holy to the Lord ; anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death. 31:16 The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant. 31:17 It is a sign between me and the Israelites forever; for in six days 9 the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’” 10
35:2 So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods you have among you. 1 Purify yourselves and change your clothes. 2 35:3 Let us go up at once 3 to Bethel. Then I will make 4 an altar there to God, who responded to me in my time of distress 5 and has been with me wherever I went.” 6
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