16Why the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.


In Context

13 Speak you also to the children of Israel, saying, Truly my sabbaths you shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that you may know that I am the LORD that does sanctify you.

14 You shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you: every one that defiles it shall surely be put to death: for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

15 Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whoever does any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

16 Why the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

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.

18 And he gave to Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him on mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.

Exodus 31:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

31:16Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, [for] a perpetual covenant.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

31:16The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

31:16Let the children of Israel keep the sabbath, and celebrate it in their generations. It is an everlasting covenant

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

31:16Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:16And the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations it is an everlasting covenant.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

31:16Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:16Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

31:16Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

31:16and the sons of Israel have observed the sabbath; to keep the sabbath to their generations is a covenant age-during,