Leviticus 23 · Verse 31

Leviticus 23:31

Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
Leviticus 23:31, King James Version

Leviticus 23:31 in other translations

BSBYou are not to do any work at all. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.
WEBYou shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
ASVYe shall do no manner of work: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
YLTye do no work--a statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings.
DARBYNo manner of work shall ye do: it is an everlasting statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
BBEYou may not do any sort of work: this is an order for ever through all your generations wherever you may be living.
WebsterYe shall do no manner of work. It shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

What does Leviticus 23:31 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Leviticus 23:27-32

27-32. there shall be a day of atonement ... and ye shall afflict your souls--an unusual festival, at which the sins of the whole year were expiated. (See Le 16:29-34). It is here only stated that the severest penalty was incurred by the violation of this day.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Leviticus 23:23-32

the blowing of trumpets represented the preaching of the gospel, by which men are called to repent of sin, and to accept the salvation of Christ, which was signified by the day of atonement. Also it invited to rejoice in God, and become strangers and pilgrims on earth, which was denoted by the feast of Tabernacles, observed in the same month. At the beginning of the year, they were called by this sound of trumpet to…

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Leviticus 23:31 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כָּל\־kol-anyH3605
מְלָאכָ֖הme.la.KhahworkH4399
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
תַעֲשׂ֑וּta.'a.Suyou will doH6213
חֻקַּ֤תchu.Kata statute ofH2708
עוֹלָם֙o.LamperpetuityH5769
לְדֹרֹ֣תֵיכֶ֔םle.do.Ro.tei.Khemto generations yourH1755
בְּכֹ֖לbe.Kholin allH3605
מֹֽשְׁבֹֽתֵיכֶֽם\׃Mo.she.Vo.tei.Khemdwelling places yourH4186

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Context

  • Leviticus 23:30

    And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day, the same soul will I destroy from among his people.

  • Leviticus 23:31

    Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

  • Leviticus 23:32

    It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

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Leviticus 23:31 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Ninguna obra haréis: estatuto perpetuo es por vuestras edades en todas vuestras habitaciones.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Vous ne ferez aucune œuvre: c’est un statut perpétuel, en vos générations, dans toutes vos habitations.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Keinerlei Arbeit sollt ihr tun: eine ewige Satzung bei euren Geschlechtern in allen euren Wohnsitzen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Nihil ergo operis facietis in eo: legitimum sempiternum erit vobis in cunctis generationibus, et habitationibus vestris.