Exodus 31:12–18

¹²And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, ¹³Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, ^rVerily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. ¹⁴Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for ^swhosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. ^15tSix days may work be done; but in the ^useventh is the sabbath of rest, ^†holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death. ¹⁶Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. ¹⁷It is ^xa sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for ^yin six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed. ¹⁸And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, ^ztwo tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.