Exodus 31:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 31:12-16
    5 verses
    84%

    12¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

    13Speak 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.

    14Ye 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.

    15Six 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.

    16Wherefore 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%

    8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

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

    10But 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:

    11For [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%

    2And 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.

    3And 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
    2 verses
    80%

    29See, 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.

    30So the people rested on the seventh day.

  • Heb 4:3-5
    3 verses
    78%

    3For 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.

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

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

  • Exod 34:21
    76%

    21Six 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%

    3Six 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%

    18And 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
    75%

    12Moreover 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
    75%

    20And 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%

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

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

  • Exod 35:2
    73%

    2Six 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
    73%

    12Six 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%

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

  • Deut 16:8
    71%

    8Six 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
    4 verses
    71%

    12Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.

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

    14But 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.

    15And 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%

    16And 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%

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

  • Exod 13:9
    71%

    9And 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
    70%

    27And 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
    70%

    8Every 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
    70%

    2Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the LORD.

  • Lev 26:35
    70%

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

  • Lev 25:2
    70%

    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 the LORD.

  • Lev 19:30
    70%

    30¶ Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I [am] the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 16:17
    69%

    17And hath confirmed the same to Jacob for a law, [and] to Israel [for] an everlasting covenant,

  • Deut 9:11
    69%

    11And 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
    69%

    14And 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
    69%

    16And 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.