Exodus 31:16
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
Exodus 31:16 in other translations
| BSB | The Israelites must keep the Sabbath, celebrating it as a permanent covenant for the generations to come. |
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| WEB | Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. |
| ASV | Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. |
| YLT | and the sons of Israel have observed the sabbath; to keep the sabbath to their generations is a covenant age-during, |
| DARBY | And the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations — it is an everlasting covenant. |
| BBE | And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy, from generation to generation, by an eternal agreement. |
| Webster | Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant. |
What does Exodus 31:16 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 31:12-17
12-17. Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep--The reason for the fresh inculcation of the fourth commandment at this particular period was, that the great ardor and eagerness, with which all classes betook themselves to the construction of the tabernacle, exposed them to the temptation of encroaching on the sanctity of the appointed day of rest. They might suppose that the erection of the tabernacle was a sacred work…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 31:12-17
Orders were now given that a tabernacle should be set up for the service of God. But they must not think that the nature of the work, and the haste that was required, would justify them in working at it on sabbath days. The Hebrew word /shabath/ signifies rest, or ceasing from labour. The thing signified by the sabbath is that rest in glory which remains for the people of God; therefore the moral obligation of the…
Exodus 31:16 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Exodus 31:16
- Jeremiah 50:5
They shall ask the way to Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant that shall not be forgotten.
- Genesis 17:11
And ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin; and it shall be a token of the 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.
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Context
- Exodus 31:15
Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
- Exodus 31:16
Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
- 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.
Exodus 31:16 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Guardarán, pues, el sábado los hijos de Israel: celebrándolo por sus edades por pacto perpetuo: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et les fils d’Israël garderont le sabbat, pour observer le sabbat en leurs générations, – une alliance perpétuelle. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und die Kinder Israel sollen den Sabbath beobachten, um den Sabbath zu feiern bei ihren Geschlechtern: ein ewiger Bund. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Custodiant filii Israël sabbatum, et celebrent illud in generationibus suis. Pactum est sempiternum |