Parallel Verses
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.
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.
A Conservative Version
It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and ye shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.
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.
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 your sin will be taken away and you will be clean: you will be made free from all your sins before the Lord. 31 It is a special Sabbath for you, and you are to keep yourselves from pleasure; it is an order for ever. 32 And the man on whose head the holy oil has been put, and who has been marked out to be a priest in his father's place, will do what is necessary to take away sin, and will put on the linen clothing, even the holy robes:
Phrases
Cross References
Leviticus 23:32
Let this be a Sabbath of special rest to you, and keep yourselves from all pleasure; on the ninth day of the month at nightfall from evening to evening, let this Sabbath be kept.
Isaiah 58:5
Have I given orders for such a day as this? a day for keeping yourselves from pleasure? is it only a question of the bent head, of putting on haircloth, and being seated in the dust? is this what seems to you a holy day, well-pleasing to the Lord?
Exodus 31:15
Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.
Exodus 35:2
Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death.
Leviticus 25:4
But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut.
Isaiah 58:3
They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;