It is a Sabbath of complete rest for you, that you may humble yourselves; it is a permanent statute.
Parallel translations
- WEB It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.
- KJV It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
- ESV It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict yourselves; it is a statute forever.
- NKJV It is a sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall afflict your souls. It is a statute forever.
- NASB It is to be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, so that you may humble yourselves; it is a permanent statute.
- NLT It will be a Sabbath day of complete rest for you, and you must deny yourselves. This is a permanent law for you.
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The day is a Sabbath of solemn rest with self-affliction, a perpetual statute. Israel must cease work and humble themselves before God.
Overview
The Day of Atonement is the most solemn Sabbath, marked by complete rest and self-affliction, binding on Israel forever. Ceasing from work signified that atonement is God's work, not theirs to earn. This rest foreshadows the gospel rest of those who trust not in their own works but in the finished atonement of Christ.
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Cross-references · 6
- Lev 23:32It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to keep your Sabbath.”
- Isa 58:5Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?
- Exod 31:15For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.
- Exod 35:2For six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on that day must be put to death.
- Lev 25:4But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land—a Sabbath to the LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard.
- Isa 58:3“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.
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