Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and ye shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.
New American Standard Bible
It is to be a sabbath of solemn rest for you, that you may
King James Version
It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
Holman Bible
It is a Sabbath
International Standard Version
It's the Sabbath of all Sabbaths for you, so humble yourselves. This is to be a perpetual statute.
American Standard Version
It is a sabbath of solemn rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; it is a statute for ever.
Amplified
It is a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves; it is a permanent statute.
Bible in Basic English
It is a special Sabbath for you, and you are to keep yourselves from pleasure; it is an order for ever.
Darby Translation
A sabbath of rest shall it be unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls: it is an everlasting statute.
Julia Smith Translation
And this is a Sabbath of Sabbath to you, and ye humbled your souls, a law forever.
King James 2000
It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and you shall humble yourselves, by a statute forever.
Lexham Expanded Bible
It [is] {a Sabbath of complete rest} for you, and you shall deny yourselves--[it is] {a lasting statute}.
Modern King James verseion
It shall be a sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls, by a statute forever.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
It shall be a Sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall humble your souls, and it shall be an ordinance forever.
NET Bible
It is to be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you must humble yourselves. It is a perpetual statute.
New Heart English Bible
It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is a statute forever.
The Emphasized Bible
A sabbath of sacred rest, it is unto you, Therefore shall ye humble your souls, A statute age-abiding.
Webster
It shall be a sabbath of rest to you, and ye shall afflict your souls by a statute for ever.
World English Bible
It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is a statute forever.
Youngs Literal Translation
it is to you a sabbath of rest, and ye have humbled yourselves -- a statute age-during.
Interlinear
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Leviticus 16:31
Verse Info
Context Readings
Review Of The Day Of Atonement
30 For on this day atonement shall be made for you, to cleanse you. Ye shall be clean from all your sins before LORD. 31 It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and ye shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever. 32 And the priest, who shall be anointed and who shall be consecrated to be priest in his father's stead, shall make the atonement. And he shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments,
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 23:32
It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, ye shall keep your Sabbath.
Isaiah 58:5
Is such the fast that I have chosen, the day for a man to afflict his soul? Is it to bow down his head as a rush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? Will thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to LORD?
Exodus 31:15
Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
Exodus 35:2
Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a Sabbath of solemn rest to LORD. Whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.
Leviticus 25:4
but in the seventh year shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to LORD. Thou shall neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.
Isaiah 58:3
Why have we fasted, [they say], and thou see not? We have afflicted our soul, and thou take no knowledge. Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact from all your laborers.