Ezekiel 20:12
Good News Translation
I made the keeping of the Sabbath a sign of the agreement between us, to remind them that I, the LORD, make them holy.

New Revised Standard Version
Moreover I gave them my sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, so that they might know that I the LORD sanctify them.

Contemporary English Version
And I commanded them to respect the Sabbath as a way of showing that they were holy and belonged to me.

New American Bible
I also gave them my sabbaths to be a sign between me and them, to show that it is I, the LORD, who makes them holy.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Moreover I gave them also my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them: and that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

I gave

Genesis 2:3 And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Exodus 16:29 See that the Lord hath given you the sabbath, and for this reason on the sixth day he giveth you a double provision: let each man stay at home, and let none go forth out of his place the seventh day.

Exodus 20:8-11 Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day. . . .

Exodus 35:2 Six days you shall do work; the seventh day shall be holy unto you, the sabbath and the rest of the Lord: he that shall do any work on it, shall be put to death.

Leviticus 23:3,24,32,39 Six days shall ye do work: the seventh day, because it is the rest of the sabbath, shall be called holy. You shall do no work on that day: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your habitations. . . .

Leviticus 25:4 But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath to the land, of the resting of the Lord. Thou shalt not sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

Deuteronomy 5:12-15 Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. . . .

Nehemiah 9:14 Thou madest known to them thy holy sabbath, and didst prescribe to them commandments, and ceremonies, and the law by the hand of Moses thy servant.

Mark 2:27,28 And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath. . . .

Colossians 2:16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink or in respect of a festival day or of the new moon or of the sabbaths,

to be

Ezekiel 20:20 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.

Exodus 31:13-17 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: See that you keep my sabbath; because it is a sign between me and you in your generations that you may know that I am the Lord, who sanctify you. . . .

I am

Ezekiel 37:28 And the nations shall know that I am the Lord the sanctifier of Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for ever.

Exodus 19:5,6 If therefore you will hear my voice, and keep my covenant, you shall be my peculiar possession above all people: for all the earth is mine. . . .

Leviticus 20:8 Keep my precepts, and do them. I am the Lord that sanctify you.

Leviticus 21:8,15,23 And offer the loaves of proposition. Let them therefore be holy because I also am holy: the Lord, who sanctify them. . . .

John 17:17-19 Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth. . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:23 And may the God of peace himself sanctify you in all things: that your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Jude 1:1 Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James: to them that are beloved in God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called.

Context
Israel's Rebellion in Egypt
11And I gave them my statutes, and I shewed them my judgments, which if a man do, he shall live in them. 12Moreover I gave them also my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them: and that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.13But the house of Israel provoked me in the desert: they walked not in my statutes, and they cast away my judgments, which if a man do he shall live in them: and they grievously violated my sabbaths. I said therefore that I would pour out my indignation upon them in the desert, and would consume them.…
Cross References
Exodus 31:13
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: See that you keep my sabbath; because it is a sign between me and you in your generations that you may know that I am the Lord, who sanctify you.

Exodus 31:17
Between me and the children of Israel, and a perpetual sign. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased from work.

Isaiah 56:2
Blessed is the man that doth this, and the son of man that shall lay hold on this: that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, that keepeth his hands from doing any evil.

Jeremiah 17:22
And do not bring burdens out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work: sanctify the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

Ezekiel 20:20
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.

Ezekiel 20:26
And I polluted them in their own gifts, when they offered all that opened the womb, for their offences: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezekiel 37:28
And the nations shall know that I am the Lord the sanctifier of Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for ever.

Ezekiel 44:24
And when there shall be a controversy, they shall stand in my judgments, and shall judge: they shall keep my laws, and my ordinances in all my solemnities, and sanctify my sabbaths.

Ezekiel 20:11
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