Exodus 31:16

Modern English Version

Therefore the Israelites must keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

Cross References

Genesis 17:11

You shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskins, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between Me and you.

Genesis 9:13

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

Nehemiah 13:15

In those days I saw in Judah some treading winepresses on the Sabbath or hauling loads of grain or loading donkeys with wine, grapes, figs, and all manner of burdens in order to bring them to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So, during the day while they were selling the food goods, I warned them.

Exodus 31:15

Six days may work be done, but on the seventh is the Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day will surely be put to death.

Exodus 31:17

It is a sign between Me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, but on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.”

Isaiah 58:13

If because of the Sabbath you turn away your foot from doing your pleasure on My holy day, and call the Sabbath a delight, the holy day of the Lord honorable, and honor it, not doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking your own words,

Jeremiah 50:5

They will ask for the way to Zion with their faces in its direction. They will come that they may join themselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that will not be forgotten.