Exodus 31:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and the sons of Israel have observed the sabbath; to keep the sabbath to their generations `is' a covenant age-during,

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 9:13 : 13 My bow I have given in the cloud, and it hath been for a token of a covenant between Me and the earth;
  • Gen 17:11 : 11 and ye have circumcised the flesh of your foreskin, and it hath become a token of a covenant between Me and you.
  • Jer 50:5 : 5 `To' Zion they ask the way, Thitherward `are' their faces: Come in, and we are joined unto Jehovah, A covenant age-during -- not forgotten.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Exod 31:17
    84%

    17between Me and the sons of Israel it `is' a sign -- to the age; for six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, and in the seventh day He hath ceased, and is refreshed.'

  • Exod 31:13-15
    3 verses
    83%

    13`And thou, speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, Only, My sabbaths ye do keep, for it `is' a sign between Me and you, to your generations, to know that I, Jehovah, am sanctifying you;

    14and ye have kept the sabbath, for it `is' holy to you, he who is polluting it is certainly put to death -- for any who doeth work in it -- that person hath even been cut off from the midst of his people.

    15`Six days is work done, and in the seventh day `is' a sabbath of holy rest to Jehovah; any who doeth work in the sabbath-day is certainly put to death,

  • Lev 23:31-32
    2 verses
    78%

    31ye do no work -- a statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings.

    32It `is' a sabbath of rest to you, and ye have humbled yourselves in the ninth of the month at even; from evening till evening ye do keep your sabbath.'

  • Lev 16:31
    78%

    31it `is' to you a sabbath of rest, and ye have humbled yourselves -- a statute age-during.

  • Lev 24:8
    77%

    8`On each sabbath-day he arrangeth it before Jehovah continually, from the sons of Israel -- a covenant age-during;

  • Lev 23:3
    77%

    3six days is work done, and in the seventh day `is' a sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye do no work; it `is' a sabbath to Jehovah in all your dwellings.

  • Exod 35:2-3
    2 verses
    77%

    2Six days is work done, and on the seventh day there is to you a holy `day', a sabbath of rest to Jehovah; any who doeth work in it is put to death;

    3ye do not burn a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath-day.'

  • Exod 16:29-30
    2 verses
    77%

    29see, because Jehovah hath given to you the sabbath, therefore He is giving to you on the sixth day bread of two days; abide ye each `in' his place, no one doth go out from his place on the seventh day.'

    30And the people rest on the seventh day,

  • Exod 20:8-11
    4 verses
    76%

    8`Remember the Sabbath-day to sanctify it;

    9six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work,

    10and the seventh day `is' a Sabbath to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and thy cattle, and thy sojourner who is within thy gates, --

    11for six days hath Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that `is' in them, and resteth in the seventh day; therefore hath Jehovah blessed the Sabbath-day, and doth sanctify it.

  • Deut 5:12
    76%

    12`Observe the day of the sabbath -- to sanctify it, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee;

  • Lev 26:2
    75%

    2`My sabbaths ye do keep, and My sanctuary ye do reverence; I `am' Jehovah.

  • Lev 25:2
    75%

    2`Speak unto the sons of Israel, and thou hast said unto them, When ye come in unto the land which I am giving to you, then hath the land kept a sabbath to Jehovah.

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

    15Remember ye to the age His covenant, The word He commanded -- To a thousand generations,

    16Which He hath made with Abraham, And His oath -- to Isaac,

    17And He establisheth it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel -- a covenant age-during.

  • Lev 19:30
    75%

    30`My sabbaths ye do keep, and My sanctuary ye do reverence; I `am' Jehovah.

  • Exod 34:21
    75%

    21`Six days thou dost work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest; in ploughing-time and in harvest thou dost rest.

  • Ezek 20:12
    75%

    12And also My sabbaths I have given to them, To be for a sign between Me and them, To know that I `am' Jehovah their sanctifier.

  • Ezek 20:20
    75%

    20And My sabbaths sanctify, And they have been for a sign between Me and you, To know that I, Jehovah, `am' your God.

  • Exod 12:14
    74%

    14`And this day hath become to you a memorial, and ye have kept it a feast to Jehovah to your generations; -- a statute age-during; ye keep it a feast.

  • Jer 17:21-22
    2 verses
    73%

    21Thus said Jehovah, Take ye heed to yourselves, And ye bear not a burden on the day of rest, Nor have ye brought `it' in by the gates of Jerusalem.

    22Nor do ye take out a burden from your houses on the day of rest, Yea, any work ye do not do, And ye have sanctified the day of rest, As I have commanded your fathers.

  • Jer 17:24
    73%

    24And it hath been, if ye certainly hearken unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah, So as not to bring in a burden By the gates of this city on the day of rest, And to sanctify the day of rest, So as not to do in it any work --

  • Exod 13:10
    73%

    10and thou hast kept this statute at its appointed season from days to days.

  • Lev 26:34-35
    2 verses
    72%

    34`Then doth the land enjoy its sabbaths -- all the days of the desolation, and ye in the land of your enemies -- then doth the land rest, and hath enjoyed its sabbaths;

    35all the days of the desolation it resteth that which it hath not rested in your sabbaths in your dwelling on it.

  • Exod 12:24
    72%

    24`And ye have observed this thing, for a statute to thee, and to thy sons -- unto the age;

  • Lev 22:31
    72%

    31and ye have kept my commands, and have done them; I `am' Jehovah;

  • Deut 5:14-15
    2 verses
    72%

    14and the seventh day `is' a sabbath to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and thine ox, and thine ass, and all thy cattle, and thy sojourner who `is' within thy gates; so that thy man-servant, and thy handmaid doth rest like thyself;

    15and thou hast remembered that a servant thou hast been in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God is bringing thee out thence by a strong hand, and by a stretched-out arm; therefore hath Jehovah thy God commanded thee to keep the day of the sabbath.

  • Isa 56:2
    72%

    2O the happiness of a man who doth this, And of a son of man who keepeth hold on it, Keeping the sabbath from polluting it, And keeping his hand from doing any evil.

  • Ps 105:10
    72%

    10And doth establish it to Jacob for a statute, To Israel -- a covenant age-during,

  • Gen 2:3
    72%

    3And God blesseth the seventh day, and sanctifieth it, for in it He hath ceased from all His work which God had prepared for making.

  • Heb 4:4
    72%

    4for He spake in a certain place concerning the seventh `day' thus: `And God did rest in the seventh day from all His works;'

  • Deut 16:8
    72%

    8six days thou dost eat unleavened things, and on the seventh day `is' a restraint to Jehovah thy God; thou dost do no work.

  • Exod 12:47
    72%

    47all the company of Israel do keep it.

  • Jer 31:36
    72%

    36If these statutes depart from before Me, An affirmation of Jehovah, Even the seed of Israel doth cease From being a nation before Me all the days.

  • Heb 4:9
    71%

    9there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,

  • Exod 16:26
    71%

    26six days ye do gather it, and in the seventh day -- the sabbath -- in it there is none.'

  • Lev 23:21
    71%

    21and ye have proclaimed on this self-same day: a holy convocation is to you, ye do no servile work -- a statute age-during in all your dwellings, to your generations.