Leviticus 23:32
Good News Translation
From sunset on the ninth day of the month to sunset on the tenth observe this day as a special day of rest, during which nothing may be eaten.

New Revised Standard Version
It shall be to you a sabbath of complete rest, and you shall deny yourselves; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening you shall keep your sabbath.

Contemporary English Version
This is a time of complete rest just like the Sabbath, and everyone must go without eating from the evening of the ninth to the evening of the tenth.

New American Bible
it is a sabbath of complete rest for you. You shall humble yourselves. Beginning on the evening of the ninth of the month, you shall keep your sabbath from evening to evening.

Douay-Rheims Bible
It is a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls beginning on the ninth day of the month. From evening until evening you shall celebrate your sabbaths.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

It is a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls beginning on the ninth day of the month. From evening until evening you shall celebrate your sabbaths.

a sabbath

Leviticus 16:31 For it is a sabbath of rest: and you shall afflict your souls by a perpetual religion.

Matthew 11:28-30 Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you. . . .

Hebrews 4:3,11 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. . . .

afflict

Leviticus 23:27 Upon the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the day of atonement. It shall be most solemn, and shall be called holy: and you shall await your souls on that day, and shall offer a holocaust to the Lord.

Psalm 25:13 His soul shall dwell in good things: and his seed shall inherit the land.

Psalm 51:17 A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Psalm 69:10,11 And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me. . . .

Psalm 126:5,6 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. . . .

Isaiah 57:15,18,19 For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite. . . .

Isaiah 58:3-7 Why have we fasted, and thou hast not regarded: have we humbled our souls, and thou hast not taken notice? Behold in the day of your fast your own will is found, and you exact of all your debtors. . . .

Isaiah 61:3 To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify him.

Matthew 5:4 Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land.

1 Corinthians 11:31 But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

celebrate your sabbath [heb] rest

Context
The Day of Atonement
31You shall do no work therefore on that day: it shall be an everlasting ordinance unto you in all your generations, and dwellings. 32It is a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls beginning on the ninth day of the month. From evening until evening you shall celebrate your sabbaths.
Cross References
Leviticus 16:31
For it is a sabbath of rest: and you shall afflict your souls by a perpetual religion.

Leviticus 23:31
You shall do no work therefore on that day: it shall be an everlasting ordinance unto you in all your generations, and dwellings.

Leviticus 23:33
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Nehemiah 13:19
And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem were at rest on the sabbath day, I spoke: and they shut the gates, and I commanded that they should not open them till after the sabbath: and I set some of my servants at the gates, that none should bring in burthens on the sabbath day.

Leviticus 23:31
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