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Exodus 31:16

Israel
Rest and sabbathCovenant and promises

14 Keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Anyone who profanes it must surely be put to death. Whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from among his people.

15 For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.

The Israelites must keep the Sabbath, celebrating it as a permanent covenant for the generations to come.

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

18 When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.

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BSB
The Israelites must keep the Sabbath, celebrating it as a permanent covenant for the generations to come.
KJV
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
WEB
Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
ASV
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
DARBY
And the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations [it is] an everlasting covenant.
BLB
And the sons of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to do the Sabbath throughout their generations [as] an everlasting covenant.
ÅB
Og Israels barn skal ta vare på sabbaten, så de holder den slekt etter slekt, en evig pakt.
OTB
Israelittene skal holde sabbaten, feire den gjennom sine generasjoner som en varig pakt.
B1930
Og Israels barn skal ta vare på sabbaten, så de holder den slekt efter slekt, en evig pakt.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Jeremiah 50:5

    They will ask the way to Zion and turn their faces toward it. They will come and join themselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that will never be forgotten.

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  • Genesis 17:11

    You are to circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, and this will be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.

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  • Genesis 9:13

    I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth.

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