Exodus 31:16 KJV — MannaFest

Exodus 31:16

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

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

The Israelites must keep the Sabbath, celebrating it as a permanent covenant for the generations to come.

YLT

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

DBT

And the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations — [it is] an everlasting covenant.

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Exodus — Deliverance, covenant, presence. A slave-people redeemed from Egypt, brought to Sinai, and given a tabernacle so that God might dwell among them.

Author: Moses — traditional attribution; internal narrator identifies Moses as recorder (17:14, 24:4, 34:27)
Date: 15th or 13th century BC, depending on chronology of the exodus

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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 17:8
And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
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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They might suppose that the erection of the tabernacle was a sacred work, and that it would be a high merit, an acceptable tribute, to prosecute the undertaking without the interruption of a day's repose; and therefore the caution here given, at the commencement of the undertaking, was a seasonable admonition.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

12 ); and here it is added to the first part of the ceremonial law, because the observance of the sabbath is indeed the hem and hedge of the whole law; where no conscience is made of that, farewell both godliness and honesty; for, in the moral law, it stands in the midst between the two tables.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

This was to be one of the most lasting tokens of that covenant which was between God and Israel.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Aholiab of the tribe of Dan. is appointed next to Bezaleel, and partner with him. Hiram, who was the head-workman in the building of Solomon's temple, was also of the tribe of Daniel, 2 Chron. ii,

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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EXO 31:16GEN 9:13 EZE 1:28
EXO 31:16GEN 9:13 REV 4:3
EXO 31:16GEN 9:13 REV 10:1
EXO 31:16GEN 17:11 ROM 4:11
EXO 31:16JER 50:5 JER 32:40
EXO 31:16JER 50:5 ISA 35:8
EXO 31:16JER 50:5 JER 6:16
EXO 31:16GEN 17:11 ACT 7:8

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