New English Translation
Leviticus 19:30
30“‘You must keep my Sabbaths and fear my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
Leviticus 19:30 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
- New International Version (NIV)“ ‘Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You shall keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
- New King James Version (NKJV)‘You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I am the Lord.
Context of Leviticus 19:30
28You must not slash your body for a dead person or incise a tattoo on yourself. I am the Lord. 29Do not profane your daughter by making her a prostitute, so that the land does not practice prostitution and become full of lewdness. “‘You must keep my Sabbaths and fear my sanctuary. I am the Lord. 31Do not turn to the spirits of the dead and do not seek familiar spirits to become unclean by them. I am the Lord your God. 32You must stand up in the presence of the aged, honor the presence of an elder, and fear your God. I am the Lord.
Read all of Leviticus 19Leviticus 19:30 word by word
אֶת־שַׁבְּתֹתַ֣י תִּשְׁמֹ֔רוּ וּמִקְדָּשִׁ֖י תִּירָ֑אוּ אֲנִ֖י יְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Leviticus 19:30
- Leviticus 19:3Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the Lord your God.
- Leviticus 26:2You must keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
- Leviticus 10:3Moses then said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke: ‘Among the ones close to me I will show myself holy, and in the presence of all the people I will be honored.’” So Aaron kept silent.
- Leviticus 15:31“‘Thus you are to set the Israelites apart from their impurity so that they do not die in their impurity by defiling my tabernacle which is in their midst.
- Leviticus 16:2and the Lord said to Moses: “Tell Aaron your brother that he must not enter at any time into the holy place inside the veil-canopy in front of the atonement plate that is on the ark so that he may not die, for I will appear in the cloud over the atonement plate.
- Genesis 28:16Then Jacob woke up and thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!”
- 2 Chronicles 33:7He put an idolatrous image he had made in God’s temple, about which God had said to David and to his son Solomon, “This temple in Jerusalem, which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, will be my permanent home.
- 2 Chronicles 36:14All the leaders of the priests and people became more unfaithful and committed the same horrible sins practiced by the nations. They defiled the Lord’s temple which he had consecrated in Jerusalem.
- Psalms 89:7a God who is honored in the great angelic assembly, and more awesome than all who surround him?
- Ecclesiastes 5:1Be careful what you do when you go to the temple of God; draw near to listen rather than to offer a sacrifice like fools, for they do not realize that they are doing wrong.
- Ezekiel 9:6Old men, young men, young women, little children, and women – wipe them out! But do not touch anyone who has the mark. Begin at my sanctuary!” So they began with the elders who were at the front of the temple.
- Matthew 21:13And he said to them, “It is written, ‘My house will be called a house of prayer,’ but you are turning it into a den of robbers!”
- John 2:15So he made a whip of cords and drove them all out of the temple courts, with the sheep and the oxen. He scattered the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.
- 2 Corinthians 6:16And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said, “I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
- 1 Peter 4:17For it is time for judgment to begin, starting with the house of God. And if it starts with us, what will be the fate of those who are disobedient to the gospel of God?
Commentaries on Leviticus 19:30
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 30My Sabbaths: The Hebrew word for “Sabbath” (shabbath) comes from a verb meaning “to cease,” suggesting rest from work. The Sabbath recalled God's rest on the seventh day after creating the world (Genesis 1:31; 2:1–3). It started at sundown on the sixth day. After the exodus from Egypt, the Sabbath took on covenantal importance (Exodus 16:23–25; 31:13). Only free people, not slaves, had a regular rest day. So the Sabbath symbolized Israel’s freedom from…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3030. Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary--This precept is frequently repeated along with the prohibition of idolatrous practices, and here it stands closely connected with the superstitions forbidden in the previous verses.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Leviticus 19
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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