Exodus 31:16

New Century Version

The Israelites must remember the Sabbath day as an agreement between them and me that will continue from now on.

Cross References

Genesis 17:11

Cut away your foreskin to show that you are prepared to follow the agreement between me and you.

Genesis 9:13

I am putting my rainbow in the clouds as the sign of the agreement between me and the earth.

Nehemiah 13:15

In those days I saw people in Judah working in the winepresses on the Sabbath day. They were bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys. And they were bringing loads of wine, grapes, and figs into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them about selling food on that day.

Exodus 31:15

There are six days for working, but the seventh day is a day of rest, a day holy for the Lord. Anyone who works during the Sabbath day must be put to death.

Exodus 31:17

The Sabbath day will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, because in six days I, the Lord, made the sky and the earth. On the seventh day I did not work; I rested.’ ”

Isaiah 58:13

“You must obey God’s law about the Sabbath and not do what pleases yourselves on that holy day. You should call the Sabbath a joyful day and honor it as the Lord’s holy day. You should honor it by not doing whatever you please nor saying whatever you please on that day.

Jeremiah 50:5

Those people will ask how to go to Jerusalem and will start in that direction. They will come and join themselves to the Lord. They will make an agreement with him that will last forever, an agreement that will never be forgotten.