"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy", is one of the Ten Commandments, which are widely understood as moral imperatives by Jewish, Catholic, Reformation and legal scholars. The book of Exodus describes the Ten Commandments as being spoken by God, inscribed on two stone tablets by the finger of God, broken by Moses, and rewritten on replacement stones by the . The full text of the commandment reads:

It is sometimes referred to as the Sabbath Commandment.