Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

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Bible References

A perpetual covenant

Genesis 9:13
I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.
Genesis 17:11
And you shall be circumcised in the flesh of your foreskin, and it shall be the sign of the covenant between Me and you.
Jeremiah 50:5
They will ask for the way to Zion, turning their faces in its direction; they will come that they may join themselves to the Lord in an everlasting covenant that will not be forgotten.

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Ezekiel 20:20
Sanctify My sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you, that you may know that I am the Lord your God.’

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