Exodus 31:16

American Standard Version (1901)

Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 9:13 : 13 I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.
  • Gen 17:11 : 11 And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt me and you.
  • Jer 50:5 : 5 They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces thitherward, [saying], Come ye, and join yourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 31:17
    84%

    17It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

  • Exod 31:13-15
    3 verses
    83%

    13Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily ye shall keep my sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am Jehovah who sanctifieth you.

    14Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that profaneth it shall surely be put to death; for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

    15Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Jehovah; whosoever doeth any work on the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

  • Lev 23:31-32
    2 verses
    78%

    31Ye shall do no manner of work: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

    32It shall be unto you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye keep your sabbath.

  • Lev 16:31
    78%

    31It is a sabbath of solemn rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; it is a statute for ever.

  • Lev 24:8
    77%

    8Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before Jehovah continually; it is on the behalf of the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant.

  • Lev 23:3
    77%

    3Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of work: it is a sabbath unto Jehovah in all your dwellings.

  • Exod 35:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of solemn rest to Jehovah: whosoever doeth any work therein shall be put to death.

    3Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

  • Exod 16:29-30
    2 verses
    77%

    29See, for that Jehovah hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

    30So the people rested on the seventh day.

  • Exod 20:8-11
    4 verses
    76%

    8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

    9Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;

    10but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

    11for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

  • Deut 5:12
    76%

    12Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee.

  • Lev 26:2
    75%

    2Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am Jehovah.

  • Lev 25:2
    75%

    2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto Jehovah.

  • 1 Chr 16:15-17
    3 verses
    75%

    15Remember his covenant for ever, The word which he commanded to a thousand generations,

    16[ The covenant] which he made with Abraham, And his oath unto Isaac,

    17And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,

  • Lev 19:30
    75%

    30Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary; I am Jehovah.

  • Exod 34:21
    75%

    21Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

  • Ezek 20:12
    75%

    12Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Jehovah that sanctifieth them.

  • Ezek 20:20
    75%

    20and hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am Jehovah your God.

  • Exod 12:14
    74%

    14And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to Jehovah: throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

  • Jer 17:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21Thus saith Jehovah, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

    22neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work: but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

  • Jer 17:24
    73%

    24And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith Jehovah, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, but to hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;

  • Exod 13:10
    73%

    10Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.

  • Lev 26:34-35
    2 verses
    72%

    34Then shall the land enjoy its sabbaths, as long as it lieth desolate, and ye are in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy its sabbaths.

    35As long as it lieth desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

  • Exod 12:24
    72%

    24And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.

  • Lev 22:31
    72%

    31Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am Jehovah.

  • Deut 5:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou.

    15And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God brought thee out thence by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Jehovah thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

  • Isa 56:2
    72%

    2Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that holdeth it fast; that keepeth the sabbath from profaning it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

  • Ps 105:10
    72%

    10And confirmed the same unto Jacob for a statute, To Israel for an everlasting covenant,

  • Gen 2:3
    72%

    3And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

  • Heb 4:4
    72%

    4For he hath said somewhere of the seventh [day] on this wise, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works;

  • Deut 16:8
    72%

    8Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Jehovah thy God; thou shalt do no work [therein] .

  • Exod 12:47
    72%

    47All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

  • Jer 31:36
    72%

    36If these ordinances depart from before me, saith Jehovah, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

  • Heb 4:9
    71%

    9There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God.

  • Exod 16:26
    71%

    26Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.

  • Lev 23:21
    71%

    21And ye shall make proclamation on the selfsame day; there shall be a holy convocation unto you; ye shall do no servile work: it is a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.