Exodus 31:17
Good News Translation
It is a permanent sign between the people of Israel and me, because I, the LORD, made heaven and earth in six days, and on the seventh day I stopped working and rested."

New Revised Standard Version
It is a sign forever between me and the people of Israel that in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.”

Contemporary English Version
This day will always serve as a reminder, both to me and to the Israelites, that I made the heavens and the earth in six days, then on the seventh day I rested and relaxed.

New American Bible
Between me and the Israelites it is to be an everlasting sign; for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day he rested at his ease.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Between me and the children of Israel, and a perpetual sign. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased from work.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Between me and the children of Israel, and a perpetual sign. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased from work.

a sign

Exodus 31:13 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: See that you keep my sabbath; because it is a sign between me and you in your generations that you may know that I am the Lord, who sanctify you.

Ezekiel 20:12,20 Moreover I gave them also my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them: and that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them. . . .

six days.

Genesis 1:31 And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.

Genesis 2:2,3 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done. . . .

Hebrews 4:3,4,10 For we, who have believed, shall enter into rest; as he said: As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest; and this indeed when the works from the foundation of the world were finished. . . .

and was refreshed.

Genesis 1:31 And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.

Job 38:7 When the morning stars praised me together, and all the sons of God made a joyful melody?

Psalm 104:31 May the glory of the Lord endure for ever: the Lord shall rejoice in his works.

Jeremiah 32:41 And I will rejoice over them, when I shall do them good: and I will plant them in this land in truth, with my whole heart, and with all my soul.

Context
The Sign of the Sabbath
16Let the children of Israel keep the sabbath, and celebrate it in their generations. It is an everlasting covenant 17Between me and the children of Israel, and a perpetual sign. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased from work.
Cross References
Hebrews 4:4
For in a certain place he spoke of the seventh day thus: And God rested the seventh day from all his works.

Genesis 1:31
And God saw all the things that he had made, and they were very good. And the evening and morning were the sixth day.

Genesis 2:2
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

Genesis 2:3
And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

Exodus 20:11
For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.

Exodus 31:13
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: See that you keep my sabbath; because it is a sign between me and you in your generations that you may know that I am the Lord, who sanctify you.

Exodus 31:16
Let the children of Israel keep the sabbath, and celebrate it in their generations. It is an everlasting covenant

Isaiah 58:13
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy own will in my holy day, and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of the Lord glorious, and glorify him, while thou dost not thy own ways, and thy own will is not found, to speak a word:

Ezekiel 20:12
Moreover I gave them also my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them: and that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.

Exodus 31:16
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