Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Ye shall do no manner of work: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
WEB
You are not to do any work at all. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.
YLT
ye do no work--a statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings.
DBT
No manner of work shall ye do: [it is] an everlasting statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentLeviticus — A holy people before a holy God. Five offerings, a priesthood, a purity code — and at the centre, a single day that carries the sins of a year to a cleansed Most Holy Place.
- Author
- Moses — receives these laws at Sinai; the repeated formula is ‘the LORD spake unto Moses, saying’
- Date
- Composed during Israel's year at Sinai (15th–13th century BC)