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


In Context

13 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: See that thou keep my sabbath: because it is a sign between me and you in your generations: that you may know that I am the Lord, who sanctify you.

14 Keep you my sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that shall profane it, shall be put to death: he that shall do my work in it, his soul shall perish out of the midst of his people.

15 Six days shall you do work: in the seventh day is the sabbath, the rest holy to the Lord. Every one that shall do any work on this day, shall die.

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

17 Between me and the children of Israel, and a perpetual sign. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased from work.

18 And the Lord, when he had ended these words in mount Sinai, gave to Moses two stone tables of testimony, 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 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,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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