Exodus 31:17

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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

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  • Gen 1:31 : 31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
  • Exod 31:13 : 13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
  • Gen 2:2-3 : 2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 3 And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
  • Ezek 20:12 : 12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
  • Heb 4:10 : 10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
  • Ezek 20:20 : 20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
  • Heb 4:3-4 : 3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
  • Job 38:7 : 7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
  • Ps 104:31 : 31 The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.
  • Jer 32:41 : 41 Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

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  • Exod 31:12-16
    5 verses
    84%

    12 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

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

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

    15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

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

  • Exod 20:8-11
    4 verses
    84%

    8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

    9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

    10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

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

  • Gen 2:2-4
    3 verses
    81%

    2 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

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

    4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,

  • Exod 16:29-30
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    29 See, for that the LORD 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.

    30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

  • Heb 4:3-5
    3 verses
    78%

    3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

    4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.

    5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.

  • Exod 34:21
    76%

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

  • Lev 23:3
    76%

    3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

  • Exod 31:18
    75%

    18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

  • Ezek 20:12
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    12 Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.

  • Ezek 20:20
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    20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.

  • Heb 4:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

    10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.

  • Exod 35:2
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    2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.

  • Exod 23:12
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    12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

  • Lev 16:31
    72%

    31 It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.

  • Deut 16:8
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    8 Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work therein.

  • Deut 5:12-15
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    12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.

    13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:

    14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

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

  • Exod 24:16
    71%

    16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

  • Lev 23:31
    71%

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

  • Exod 13:9
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    9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.

  • Exod 34:27
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    27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

  • Lev 24:8
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    8 Every sabbath he shall set it in order before the LORD continually, being taken from the children of Israel by an everlasting covenant.

  • Lev 26:2
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    2 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

  • Lev 26:35
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    35 As long as it lieth desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

  • Lev 25:2
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    2 Speak 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 the LORD.

  • Lev 19:30
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    30 Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 16:17
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    17 And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant,

  • Deut 9:11
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    11 And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant.

  • Exod 12:14
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    14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

  • Exod 13:16
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    16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.

  • Gen 1:31
    68%

    31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.