Exodus 31:13-18
31:13 “Tell the Israelites, ‘Surely you must keep my Sabbaths,
for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the
Lord who sanctifies you.
31:14 So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you. Everyone who defiles it
must surely be put to death; indeed,
if anyone does
any
work on it, then that person will be cut off from among his
people.
31:15 Six days
work may be done,
but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest,
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
the
Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.’”
31:18 He gave Moses two tablets of testimony when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, tablets of stone written by the finger of God.