Exodus 31:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

It is a sign between me and the children of Israel forever: 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 everything that He had made, and they were very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
  • Exod 31:13 : 13 Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, Truly my Sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.
  • Gen 2:2-3 : 2 And on the seventh day God finished 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 on it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.
  • Ezek 20:12 : 12 Moreover I also gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
  • Heb 4:10 : 10 For he who has entered into his rest has also 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 you may know that I am the LORD your God.
  • Heb 4:3-4 : 3 For we who have believed do enter into rest, as he said, "As I have sworn in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest:" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested 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 forever: the LORD shall rejoice in His works.
  • Jer 32:41 : 41 Yes, 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%

    12And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

    13Speak also to the children of Israel, saying, Truly my Sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

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

    15Six days may work be done; but the seventh is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

    16Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a perpetual covenant.

  • Exod 20:8-11
    4 verses
    84%

    8Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

    9Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

    10but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor the stranger who is within your gates.

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

  • Gen 2:2-4
    3 verses
    81%

    2And on the seventh day God finished 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 on it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.

    4These are the generations of the heavens and 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, the LORD has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain 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 who have believed do enter into rest, as he said, "As I have sworn in my wrath, they shall not enter into my rest:" although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

    4For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested the seventh day from all his works."

    5And in this place again, "They shall not enter into my rest."

  • Exod 34:21
    76%

    21Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

  • Lev 23:3
    76%

    3Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, a holy gathering; you shall do no work in it; it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

  • Exod 31:18
    75%

    18And he gave to Moses, when he had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai, two tablets of the testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.

  • Ezek 20:12
    75%

    12Moreover I also gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.

  • Ezek 20:20
    75%

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

  • Heb 4:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9There remains therefore a rest for the people of God.

    10For he who has entered into his rest has also 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 a holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

  • Exod 23:12
    73%

    12Six days you shall work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your maidservant and the foreigner may be refreshed.

  • Lev 16:31
    72%

    31It shall be a sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls, by a statute forever.

  • Deut 16:8
    71%

    8Six days you shall eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God: you shall do no work in it.

  • Deut 5:12-15
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    71%

    12Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

    13Six days you shall labor, and do all your work:

    14But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

    15And remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out from there through a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore the LORD your God commanded you 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 to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.

  • Lev 23:31
    71%

    31You shall do no manner of work; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

  • Exod 13:9
    71%

    9And it shall be for a sign to you upon your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the LORD'S law may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.

  • Exod 34:27
    70%

    27And the LORD said to Moses, "Write these words, for according to the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with you 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%

    2You shall keep my Sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

  • Lev 26:35
    70%

    35As long as it lies desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your Sabbaths, when you dwelt upon it.

  • Lev 25:2
    70%

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

  • Lev 19:30
    70%

    30You shall keep my sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary: I am the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 16:17
    69%

    17And confirmed 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 tablets of stone, even the tablets of the covenant.

  • Exod 12:14
    69%

    14And this day shall be to you a memorial; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; you shall keep it as a feast by an ordinance forever.

  • Exod 13:16
    69%

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

  • Gen 1:31
    68%

    31And God saw everything that He had made, and they were very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.