break the Sabbath
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break the Sabbath (third-person singular simple present breaks the Sabbath, present participle breaking the Sabbath, simple past broke the Sabbath, past participle broken the Sabbath)
- (idiomatic) To violate (the holiness or sanctity of) the Sabbath (by not keeping it holy).
- Matthew 12:5 Or have you not read in the Law, that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple break the Sabbath and are innocent? (New American Standard Bible, ©1995)
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to break the Sabbath
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