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Raw Concept Context Data

concept_context.py "Exodus 20:8"

Verse

"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy." Book: Exodus | Chapter: 20 | Author: Moses

Concepts Found

  • HOLY: Qadosh/hagios -- set apart, sacred
  • Strong's: H6942 (to keep it holy)

Same Chapter (Exodus 20) -- 1 verse

  1. Exodus 20:11 [HOLY] "For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it."

Same Book (Exodus) -- 71 verses with HOLY concept

Key selections relevant to the Sabbath study:

  1. Exodus 12:16 [HOLY] "And in the first day [there shall be] an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save [that] which every man must eat, that only may be done of you."

  2. Exodus 13:2 [HOLY] "Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, [both] of man and of beast: it [is] mine."

  3. Exodus 15:11 [HOLY] "Who [is] like unto thee, O LORD, among the gods? who [is] like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful [in] praises, doing wonders?"

  4. Exodus 16:23 [HOLY] "And he said unto them, This [is that] which the LORD hath said, To morrow [is] the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake [that] which ye will bake [to day], and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning."

  5. Exodus 19:6 [HOLY] "And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation. These [are] the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel."

  6. Exodus 19:10 [HOLY] "And the LORD said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,"

  7. Exodus 19:14 [HOLY] "And Moses went down from the mount unto the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes."

  8. Exodus 19:22 [HOLY] "And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD, sanctify themselves, lest the LORD break forth upon them."

  9. Exodus 19:23 [HOLY] "And Moses said unto the LORD, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it."

Same Author (Moses) -- 183 verses with HOLY concept

Key selections relevant to the study:

  1. Deuteronomy 14:2 [HOLY] "For thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that [are] upon the earth."

  2. Deuteronomy 14:21 [HOLY] "Ye shall not eat [of] any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that [is] in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou [art] an holy people unto the LORD thy God."

  3. Deuteronomy 26:15 [HOLY] "Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey."

Other Books -- 526 verses with HOLY concept

The HOLY concept (qadosh/qadash/hagios) connects Exodus 20:8 to a vast network of passages across the entire Bible where God's holiness, sanctification, and the setting apart of times, places, people, and objects is the theme. This establishes "holy" (qadash) in Exo 20:8 within the broader biblical theology of sanctification -- God sets apart the Sabbath day just as He sets apart His people, His sanctuary, and His name.

Key connections for the Sabbath study: - Leviticus 19:2 -- "Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy." (Foundation for all holiness commands) - Isaiah 58:13 -- "my holy day" (God calls the Sabbath holy in the prophets) - Nehemiah 9:14 -- "thy holy sabbath" (Nehemiah's retrospective) - Ezekiel 20:12, 20 -- "my sabbaths...that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them" (Sabbath as sanctification sign) - Genesis 2:3 -- "God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it" (creation sanctification)

Analysis Notes

The concept_context tool identified only one concept (HOLY/H6942) in Exodus 20:8, since the verse's key action verb is qadash ("to keep it holy"). The tool does not identify zakar ("remember") or shabbath as separate indexed concepts, so the HOLY concept provides the primary cross-reference network.

The connection between Exo 20:8 and Exo 20:11 in the same chapter is significant: v.8 commands keeping the Sabbath holy; v.11 explains that God Himself "hallowed" (qadash) the day -- the same verb in both verses. God commands what He Himself has already done.

The pre-Sinai connection to Exo 16:23 ("the rest of the holy sabbath") confirms the holiness of the Sabbath was already established before the Decalogue was formally given at Sinai.