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Leviticus 19:30
You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Yahweh addresses the Israelites through Moses during the wilderness period. The command interrupts a sequence of laws warning against land defilement through sexual immorality and occult practices.
The words — The Hebrew תִשְׁמְרוּ (tish.Mo.ru) literally means "you will keep," and תִירָאוּ (ti.Ra.'u) means "you will fear" or "stand in awe." These verbs establish active preservation of sacred time and reverent distance toward the sanctuary.
The thread — The identical command to keep Sabbaths and revere the sanctuary appears in Leviticus 26:2. The passage also connects to the Sabbath mandate in Leviticus 19:3 and the warning to guard steps at God's house in Ecclesiastes 5:1.
Why it lands — The text requires readers to actively preserve Sabbath observance and maintain reverent distance toward God's dwelling place. It demands practical obedience to divine boundaries rather than casual attendance.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.
Cross-references
- Leviticus 26:2 You must keep My Sabbaths and have reverence for My sanctuary. I am the LORD.
- Leviticus 19:3 Each of you must respect his mother and father, and you must keep My Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
- Ecclesiastes 5:1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
- Exodus 20:8 Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
- Leviticus 16:2 And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
- Psalms 89:7 In the council of the holy ones, God is greatly feared, and awesome above all who surround Him.
- Matthew 21:13 And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’”
- 2 Corinthians 6:16 What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.”
- Genesis 28:16 When Jacob woke up, he said, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”
- Leviticus 10:3 Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD meant when He said: ‘To those who come near Me I will show My holiness, and in the sight of all the people I will reveal My glory.’” But Aaron remained silent.