Exodus 31:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ Wherefore the Israelites shall keep the Sabbath to observe it throughout their generations, a perpetual covenant.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ The Israelites should keep the Sabbath. They should observe the Sabbath in every generation as a covenant for all time.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ Let the sons of Israel keep the Sabbath, and let them celebrate it throughout their generations. It is an everlasting covenant

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ Let the children of Israel keep the sabbath, and celebrate it in their generations. It is an everlasting covenant

Exodus 31:16 Cross References

Genesis 17:11

And ye shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of a covenant betwixt me and you.

Genesis 9:13

I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.

Nehemiah 13:15

In those days saw I in Judah some treading winepresses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses therewith; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.

Exodus 31:15

Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 31:17

It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Isaiah 58:13

If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, and the holy of the LORD honourable; and shalt honour it, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

Jeremiah 50:5

They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come ye, and join yourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.