Exodus 31:17

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 1:31 : 31 God saw all that he had made– and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.
  • Exod 31:13 : 13 “Tell the Israelites,‘Surely you must keep my Sabbaths, 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 By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing. 3 God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.
  • Ezek 20:12 : 12 I also gave them my Sabbaths as a reminder of our relationship, so that they would know that I, the LORD, sanctify them.
  • Heb 4:10 : 10 For the one who enters God’s rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.
  • Ezek 20:20 : 20 Treat my Sabbaths as holy and they will be a reminder of our relationship, and then you will know that I am the LORD your God.”
  • Heb 4:3-4 : 3 For we who have believed enter that rest, as he has said,“As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’” And yet God’s works were accomplished from the foundation of the world. 4 For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way:“And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”
  • Job 38:7 : 7 when the morning stars sang in chorus, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
  • Ps 104:31 : 31 May the splendor of the LORD endure! May the LORD find pleasure in the living things he has made!
  • Jer 32:41 : 41 I will take delight in doing good to them. I will faithfully and wholeheartedly plant them firmly in the land.’

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 31:12-16
    5 verses
    84%

    12Sabbath Observance The LORD said to Moses,

    13“Tell the Israelites,‘Surely you must keep my Sabbaths, for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the LORD who sanctifies you.

    14So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you. Everyone who defiles it must surely be put to death; indeed, if anyone does any work on it, then that person will be cut off from among his people.

    15Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD; anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.

    16The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.

  • Exod 20:8-11
    4 verses
    84%

    8“Remember the Sabbath day to set it apart as holy.

    9For six days you may 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, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates.

    11For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

  • Gen 2:2-4
    3 verses
    81%

    2By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.

    3God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.

    4The Creation of Man and Woman This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created– when the LORD God made the earth and heavens.

  • Exod 16:29-30
    2 verses
    80%

    29See, because the LORD has given you the Sabbath, that is why he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; let no one 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 enter that rest, as he has said,“As I swore in my anger,‘They will never enter my rest!’” And yet God’s works were accomplished from the foundation of the world.

    4For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way:“And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”

    5but to repeat the text cited earlier:“They will never enter my rest!”

  • Exod 34:21
    76%

    21“On six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; even at the time of plowing and of harvest you are to rest.

  • Lev 23:3
    76%

    3The Weekly Sabbath“‘Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the LORD in all the places where you live.

  • Exod 31:18
    75%

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

  • Ezek 20:12
    75%

    12I also gave them my Sabbaths as a reminder of our relationship, so that they would know that I, the LORD, sanctify them.

  • Ezek 20:20
    75%

    20Treat my Sabbaths as holy and they will be a reminder of our relationship, and then you will know that I am the LORD your God.”

  • Heb 4:9-10
    2 verses
    73%

    9Consequently a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.

    10For the one who enters God’s rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works.

  • Exod 35:2
    73%

    2In six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Anyone who does work on it will be put to death.

  • Exod 23:12
    73%

    12For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, in order that your ox and your donkey may rest and that your female servant’s son and the resident foreigner may refresh themselves.

  • Lev 16:31
    72%

    31It is to be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves. It is a perpetual statute.

  • Deut 16:8
    71%

    8You must eat bread made without yeast for six days. The seventh day you are to hold an assembly for the LORD your God; you must not do any work on that day.

  • Deut 5:12-15
    4 verses
    71%

    12Be careful to observe the Sabbath day just as the LORD your God has commanded you.

    13You are to work and do all your tasks in six days,

    14but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the resident foreigner who lives with you, so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have rest.

    15Recall that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there by strength and power. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

  • Exod 24:16
    71%

    16The glory of the LORD resided on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day he called to Moses from within the cloud.

  • Lev 23:31
    71%

    31You must not do any work. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.

  • Exod 13:9
    71%

    9It will be a sign for you on your hand and a memorial on your forehead, so that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.

  • Exod 34:27
    70%

    27The LORD said to Moses,“Write down these words, for in accordance with these words I have made a covenant with you and with Israel.”

  • Lev 24:8
    70%

    8Each Sabbath day Aaron must arrange it before the LORD continually; this portion is from the Israelites as a perpetual covenant.

  • Lev 26:2
    70%

    2You must keep my Sabbaths and reverence my sanctuary. I am the LORD.

  • Lev 26:35
    70%

    35All the days of the desolation it will have the rest it did not have on your Sabbaths when you lived on it.

  • Lev 25:2
    70%

    2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When you enter the land that I am giving you, the land must observe a Sabbath to the LORD.

  • Lev 19:30
    70%

    30Purity, Honor, Respect, and Honesty“‘You must keep my Sabbaths and fear my sanctuary. I am the LORD.

  • 1 Chr 16:17
    69%

    17He gave it to Jacob as a decree, to Israel as a lasting promise,

  • Deut 9:11
    69%

    11Now at the end of the forty days and nights the LORD presented me with the two stone tablets, the tablets of the covenant.

  • Exod 12:14
    69%

    14This day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a festival to the LORD– you will celebrate it perpetually as a lasting ordinance.

  • Exod 13:16
    69%

    16It will be for a sign on your hand and for frontlets on your forehead, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”

  • Gen 1:31
    68%

    31God saw all that he had made– and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.