¹²And Yahweh spoke to Moses and said, ¹³“And you, speak to the Israelites,^d saying, ‘Surely you must keep my Sabbaths, because it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, in order to know that I am Yahweh, who consecrates you. ¹⁴And you must keep the Sabbath, because it is holy for you; defilers^e of it will surely be put to death, because anyone who does work on it—that person will be cut off from among his people. ¹⁵On six days work can be done, and on the seventh is a Sabbath of complete rest,^f a holy day^g for Yahweh; anyone doing work on the Sabbath day will surely be put to death. ¹⁶The Israelites^h will pay attention to the Sabbath in order to fulfill the Sabbathⁱ throughout their generations as a lasting covenant. ¹⁷It is a sign between me and the Israelites^j forever, because in six days Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh he ceased^k and recovered.”^l

¹⁸And when he finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, he gave to Moses the two tablets of the testimony, stone tablets, written with the finger of God.

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Footnotes

dLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
eOr “profaners,” those who treat it as common
fLiterally “a Sabbath of ‘Sabbathation.’ ” “Sabbathation” is not a real word, but devised as an attempt to convey the sounds of the related nouns in the Hebrew phrase
gLiterally “holiness”
hLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
iOr “keep the Sabbath to do/observe the Sabbath”
jLiterally “sons/children of Israel”
kOr “rested”
lOr “breathed freely,” “got his breath”