Leviticus 16:31 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³¹ It is a Sabbath of complete rest to you, and you shall humble yourselves; it is a statute forever.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³¹ It is a sabbath of [solemn] rest to you, and you shall afflict yourselves [by fasting with penitence and humiliation]; it is a statute forever.

American Standard Version (1901)

³¹ It is a sabbath of solemn rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; it is a statute for ever.

Common English Bible

³¹ It will be a Sabbath of special rest for you, and you will deny yourselves. This is a permanent rule.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³¹ For it is a Sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls as a perpetual observance.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³¹ For it is a sabbath of rest: and you shall afflict your souls by a perpetual religion.

Leviticus 16:31 Cross References

Ezra 8:21

Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the River Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our possessions.

Exodus 31:15

Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall be put to death.

Exodus 35:2

“Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy Sabbath of solemn rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

Isaiah 58:3

“Why do we fast, but you do not see? Why humble ourselves, but you do not notice?” Look, you serve your own interest on your fast day and oppress all your workers.

Isaiah 58:5

Is such the fast that I choose, a day to humble oneself? Is it to bow down the head like a bulrush and to lie in sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast, a day acceptable to the Lord?

Daniel 10:12

He said to me, “Do not fear, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your mind to gain understanding and to humble yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.

Leviticus 23:32

It shall be to you a Sabbath of complete rest, and you shall humble yourselves; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening you shall keep your Sabbath.”

Leviticus 25:4

but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land, a Sabbath for the Lord: you shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.