31It shall be a sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.


In Context

28 And he that burns them shall wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp.

29 And this shall be a statute for ever to you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojournes among you:

30 For on that day shall the priest make an atonement for you, to cleanse you, that you may be clean from all your sins before the LORD.

31 It shall be a sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.

32 And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments:

33 And he shall make an atonement for the holy sanctuary, and he shall make an atonement for the tabernacle of the congregation, and for the altar, and he shall make an atonement for the priests, and for all the people of the congregation.

Leviticus 16:31 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

16:31It [shall be] a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

16:31It is a sabbath of rest, and you must deny yourselves; it is a lasting ordinance.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

16:31For it is a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls by a perpetual religion.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

16:31It is a sabbath of solemn rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; it is a statute for ever.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:31A sabbath of rest shall it be unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls: it is an everlasting statute.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

16:31It is a sabbath of solemn rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; it is a statute for ever.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:31It shall be a sabbath of rest to you, and ye shall afflict your souls by a statute for ever.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

16:31It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is a statute forever.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

16:31it is to you a sabbath of rest, and ye have humbled yourselves — a statute age-during.