Exodus 31:14-16

The Voice

¹⁴ Keep the Sabbath because it is a sacred day for you, different from all other days. Anyone who violates the Sabbath or defiles it must be executed; anyone who works on the Sabbath will be cut off from the community. ¹⁵ You have six days out of every week to do whatever work is needed, but the seventh day is the Sabbath, a day set aside for rest and only rest. It is sacred to Me. Anyone who works on the Sabbath must be executed. ¹⁶ Therefore, the Israelites are to keep the Sabbath and celebrate it throughout all their generations as an everlasting covenant.