New King James Version
Leviticus 19:30
30‘You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence 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 Living Translation (NLT)“Keep my Sabbath days of rest, and show reverence toward my sanctuary. I am the Lord.
Context of Leviticus 19:30
28You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor tattoo any marks on you: I am the Lord. 29‘Do not prostitute your daughter, to cause her to be a harlot, lest the land fall into harlotry, and the land become full of wickedness. ‘You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I am the Lord. 31‘Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God. 32‘You shall rise before the gray headed and honor the presence of an old man, 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 19:3‘Every one of you shall revere his mother and his father, and keep My Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.
- Leviticus 26:2You shall keep My Sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary: I am the Lord.
- Leviticus 10:3And Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke, saying: ‘By those who come near Me I must be regarded as holy; And before all the people I must be glorified.’ ” So Aaron held his peace.
- Leviticus 15:31‘Thus you shall separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, lest they die in their uncleanness when they defile My tabernacle that is among them.
- Leviticus 16:2and the Lord said to Moses: “Tell Aaron your brother not to come at just any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, before the mercy seat which is on the ark, lest he die; for I will appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
- Genesis 28:16Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.”
- 2 Chronicles 33:7He even 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 out of all the tribes of Israel, I will put My name forever;
- 2 Chronicles 36:14Moreover all the leaders of the priests and the people transgressed more and more, according to all the abominations of the nations, and defiled the house of the Lord which He had consecrated in Jerusalem.
- Psalms 89:7God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, And to be held in reverence by all those around Him.
- Ecclesiastes 5:1Walk prudently when you go to the house of God; and draw near to hear rather than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.
- Ezekiel 9:6Utterly slay old and young men, maidens and little children and women; but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the temple.
- Matthew 21:13And He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a ‘den of thieves.’ ”
- John 2:15When He had made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple, with the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the changers’ money and overturned the tables.
- 2 Corinthians 6:16And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people.”
- 1 Peter 4:17For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey 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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