Exodus 31:16

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The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it as a perpetual covenant for their generations.

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  • Gen 9:13 : 13 I have set My bow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.'
  • Gen 17:11 : 11 You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and it will be the sign of the covenant between Me and you.
  • Jer 50:5 : 5 They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

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  • Exod 31:17
    84%

    17It is a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.

  • Exod 31:13-15
    3 verses
    83%

    13Speak to the Israelites and say: 'You must observe my Sabbaths, for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, so that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

    14You shall keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Anyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among their people.

    15For six days, work shall be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

  • Lev 23:31-32
    2 verses
    78%

    31You must not do any work. This is a perpetual statute for your generations in all your dwellings.

    32It shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. It begins on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening you shall observe your Sabbath.

  • Lev 16:31
    78%

    31It is a sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves; it shall be a lasting ordinance.

  • Lev 24:8
    77%

    8Every Sabbath day, this arrangement must be set in order before the LORD continually, as a perpetual covenant from the Israelites.

  • Lev 23:3
    77%

    3For six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.

  • Exod 35:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2Work is to be done for six days, but the seventh day will be holy to you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death.

    3You shall not kindle a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.

  • Exod 16:29-30
    2 verses
    77%

    29Understand that the LORD has given you the sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where they are; no one is to go out 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 you shall labor and do all your work,

    10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your livestock, nor any foreigner residing within your gates.

    11For in six days, the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but He rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

  • Deut 5:12
    76%

    12Observe the Sabbath day to keep it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

  • Lev 26:2
    75%

    2Keep my Sabbaths and revere my sanctuary; I am the LORD.

  • Lev 25:2
    75%

    2Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you come into the land that I am giving you, the land will observe a Sabbath to the LORD.

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

    15Remember his covenant forever, the word he commanded for a thousand generations.

    16The covenant he made with Abraham, and the oath he swore to Isaac.

    17He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant.

  • Lev 19:30
    75%

    30Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD.

  • Exod 34:21
    75%

    21You are to work for six days, but on the seventh day you must rest—even during the plowing season and the harvest you must rest.

  • Ezek 20:12
    75%

    12Also, I gave them my Sabbaths as a sign between me and them, so they would know that I am the LORD who makes them holy.

  • Ezek 20:20
    75%

    20Sanctify my Sabbaths, and they will be a sign between me and you so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.'

  • Exod 12:14
    74%

    14This day shall be a memorial for you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, as a perpetual ordinance, you shall celebrate it.

  • Jer 17:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21This is what the LORD says: 'Be careful not to carry any load on the Sabbath day, or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem.'

    22Do not bring any load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors.

  • Jer 17:24
    73%

    24But if you diligently obey Me, declares the LORD, and do not bring any load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy and do no work on it,

  • Exod 13:10
    73%

    10You shall keep this ordinance at the appointed time year after year.

  • Lev 26:34-35
    2 verses
    72%

    34Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in the land of your enemies; then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths.

    35As long as it lies desolate, it will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths while you lived there.

  • Exod 12:24
    72%

    24You shall observe this event as a statute for you and your children forever.

  • Lev 22:31
    72%

    31Therefore, keep My commandments and follow them. I am the LORD.

  • Deut 5:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14But the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female servant, your ox, your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the foreigner residing in your towns—so that your male and female servants may rest as you do.

    15Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore, the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

  • Isa 56:2
    72%

    2Blessed is the person who does this, the one who holds fast to it: keeping the Sabbath without profaning it and guarding their hands from doing any evil.

  • Ps 105:10
    72%

    10He confirmed it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as an everlasting covenant.

  • Gen 2:3
    72%

    3Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work of creation that He had done.

  • Heb 4:4
    72%

    4For somewhere He has said this about the seventh day: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works."

  • Deut 16:8
    72%

    8For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God. You must not do any work.

  • Exod 12:47
    72%

    47The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.

  • Jer 31:36
    72%

    36Only if these decrees vanish from my sight, declares the LORD, will the descendants of Israel ever cease to be a nation before me.

  • Heb 4:9
    71%

    9Therefore, a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.

  • Exod 16:26
    71%

    26For six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the sabbath, there will not be any."

  • Lev 23:21
    71%

    21On that same day you shall proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This shall be a perpetual statute for all your generations in all your dwellings.