Exodus 31:16

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

Therefore the children of Yisra'el shall keep the Shabbat, to observe the Shabbat throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

Cross References

Genesis 17:11

You shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin. It will be a token of the covenant between me and you.

Genesis 9:13

I set my rainbow in the cloud, and it will be for a sign of a covenant between me and the earth.

Nehemiah 13:15

In those days saw I in Yehudah some men treading winepresses on the Shabbat, and bringing in sheaves, and lading donkeys [therewith]; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Yerushalayim on the day of Shabbat: and I testified [against them] in the day in which they sold food.

Exodus 31:15

Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Shabbat of solemn rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the day of Shabbat shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 31:17

It is a sign between me and the children of Yisra'el forever; for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.'*

Isaiah 58:13

If you turn away your foot from the Shabbat, from doing your pleasure on my holy day; and call the Shabbat a delight, [and] the holy of the LORD honorable; and shall honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking [your own] words:

Jeremiah 50:5

They shall inquire concerning Tziyon with their faces turned toward it, [saying], Come, and join yourselves to the LORD in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.