Leviticus 23:32

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let this be a Sabbath of special rest to you, and keep yourselves from all pleasure; on the ninth day of the month at nightfall from evening to evening, let this Sabbath be kept.

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  • Lev 16:31 : 31 It is a special Sabbath for you, and you are to keep yourselves from pleasure; it is an order for ever.
  • Lev 23:27 : 27 The tenth day of this seventh month is the day for the taking away of sin; let it be a holy day of worship; you are to keep from pleasure, and give to the Lord an offering made by fire.
  • Ps 35:13 : 13 But as for me, when they were ill I put on the clothing of sorrow: I went without food and was sad, and my prayer came back again to my heart.
  • Ps 51:17 : 17 The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.
  • Ps 69:10-11 : 10 My bitter weeping, and my going without food, were turned to my shame. 11 When I put on the clothing of grief, they said evil of me.
  • Ps 126:5-6 : 5 Those who put in seed with weeping will get in the grain with cries of joy. 6 Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.
  • Isa 57:15 : 15 For this is the word of him who is high and lifted up, whose resting-place is eternal, whose name is Holy: my resting-place is in the high and holy place, and with him who is crushed and poor in spirit, to give life to the spirit of the poor, and to make strong the heart of the crushed.
  • Isa 57:18-19 : 18 I have seen his ways, and I will make him well: I will give him rest, comforting him and his people who are sad. 19 I will give the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is near and to him who is far off, says the Lord; and I will make him well.
  • Isa 58:3-7 : 3 They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts; 4 If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high. 5 Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord? 6 Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken? 7 Is it not to give your bread to those in need, and to let the poor who have no resting-place come into your house? to put a robe on the unclothed one when you see him, and not to keep your eyes shut for fear of seeing his flesh?
  • Isa 61:3 : 3 To give them a fair head-dress in place of dust, the oil of joy in place of the clothing of grief, praise in place of sorrow; so that they may be named trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, and so that he may have glory.
  • Matt 5:4 : 4 Happy are those who are sad: for they will be comforted.
  • Matt 11:28-30 : 28 Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls; 30 For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.
  • 1 Cor 11:31 : 31 But if we were true judges of ourselves, punishment would not come on us.
  • Heb 4:3 : 3 For those of us who have belief come into his rest; even as he has said, As I said in my oath when I was angry, They may not come into my rest: though the works were done from the time of the making of the world.
  • Heb 4:11 : 11 Because of this, let us have a strong desire to come into that rest, and let no one go after the example of those who went against God's orders.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 16:29-31
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    29 And let this be an order to you for ever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day, you are to keep yourselves from pleasure and do no sort of work, those who are Israelites by birth and those from other lands who are living among you:

    30 For on this day your sin will be taken away and you will be clean: you will be made free from all your sins before the Lord.

    31 It is a special Sabbath for you, and you are to keep yourselves from pleasure; it is an order for ever.

  • Num 29:7
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    7 And on the tenth day of this seventh month there will be a holy meeting; keep yourselves from pleasure, and do no sort of work;

  • Lev 23:33-36
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    33 And the Lord said to Moses,

    34 Say to the children of Israel, On the fifteenth day of this seventh month let the feast of tents be kept to the Lord for seven days.

    35 On the first day there will be a holy meeting: do no field-work.

    36 Every day for seven days give an offering made by fire to the Lord; and on the eighth day there is to be a holy meeting, when you are to give an offering made by fire to the Lord; this is a special holy day: you may do no field-work on that day.

  • Lev 23:24-31
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    24 Say to the children of Israel, In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a special day of rest for you, a day of memory, marked by the blowing of horns, a meeting for worship.

    25 Do no field-work and give to the Lord an offering made by fire.

    26 And the Lord said to Moses,

    27 The tenth day of this seventh month is the day for the taking away of sin; let it be a holy day of worship; you are to keep from pleasure, and give to the Lord an offering made by fire.

    28 And on that day you may do no sort of work, for it is a day of taking away sin, to make you clean before the Lord your God.

    29 For any person, whoever he may be, who takes his pleasure on that day will be cut off from his people.

    30 And if any person, whoever he may be, on that day does any sort of work, I will send destruction on him from among his people.

    31 You may not do any sort of work: this is an order for ever through all your generations wherever you may be living.

  • Lev 23:2-4
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    2 Say to the children of Israel, These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, which you will keep for holy meetings: these are my feasts.

    3 On six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a special day of rest, a time for worship; you may do no sort of work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you may be living.

    4 These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, the holy days of worship which you will keep at their regular times.

  • Lev 23:39
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    39 But on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have got in all the fruits of the land, you will keep the feast of the Lord for seven days: the first day will be a Sabbath, and the eighth day the same.

  • Num 29:12
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    12 And on the fifteenth day of the seventh month let there be a holy meeting; do no field-work, and keep a feast to the Lord for seven days;

  • Num 29:35
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    35 On the eighth day let there be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work;

  • Lev 23:21
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    21 And on the same day, let it be given out that there will be a holy meeting for you: you may do no field-work on that day: it is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.

  • Lev 23:6-9
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    6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread.

    7 On the first day you will have a holy meeting; you may do no sort of field-work.

    8 And every day for seven days you will give a burned offering to the Lord; and on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.

    9 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 28:25
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    25 Then on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.

  • Exod 12:16
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    16 And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is necessary for everyone's food.

  • Deut 16:8
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    8 For six days let your food be unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there is to be a holy meeting to the Lord your God; no work is to be done.

  • Lev 23:41
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    41 And let this feast be kept before the Lord for seven days in the year: it is a rule for ever from generation to generation; in the seventh month let it be kept.

  • Num 9:3
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    3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you are to keep it at the regular time, and in the way ordered in the law.

  • Exod 34:21-22
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    74%

    21 Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.

    22 And you are to keep the feast of weeks when you get in the first-fruits of the grain, and the feast at the turn of the year when you take in the produce of your fields.

  • Lev 23:15
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    15 And let seven full weeks be numbered from the day after the Sabbath, the day when you give the grain for the wave offering;

  • Exod 35:2-3
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    2 Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death.

    3 No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day.

  • Num 28:18
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    18 On the first day there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no sort of field-work:

  • Lev 26:34-35
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    34 Then will the land take pleasure in its Sabbaths while it is waste and you are living in the land of your haters; then will the land have rest.

    35 All the days while it is waste will the land have rest, such rest as it never had in your Sabbaths, when you were living in it.

  • Jer 17:22
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    22 And take no weight out of your houses on the Sabbath day, or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I gave orders to your fathers;

  • Exod 12:14
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    14 And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever.

  • Exod 31:14-16
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    14 So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off from his people.

    15 Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.

    16 And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy, from generation to generation, by an eternal agreement.

  • Exod 23:12
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    12 For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.

  • Num 29:1
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    1 In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a holy meeting; on it you may do no field-work; let the day be marked by the blowing of horns;

  • Lev 25:8
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    8 And let seven Sabbaths of years be numbered to you, seven times seven years; even the days of seven Sabbaths of years, that is forty-nine years;

  • Exod 16:29
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    29 See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives you on the sixth day bread enough for two days; let every man keep where he is; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.