Leviticus 23:31

31 Ye shall do no manner of work; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your ages in all your dwellings.

Leviticus 23:31 Meaning and Commentary

Leviticus 23:31

Ye shall do no manner of work
Which is repeated, that it might be observed, and to show how strictly God required this day should be kept, and how careful men should be of breaking the command in this respect, and how much he should resent it if they did:

[it shall be] a statute for ever, throughout your generations, in all
your dwellings;
unto the coming of the Messiah, who, by the atoning sacrifice of himself, would answer to this law, and put an end to it.

Leviticus 23:31 In-Context

29 For every person that shall not afflict themselves in that same day, shall be cut off from among his people.

30 And any person that does any work in that same day, the same person will I destroy from among his people.

31 Ye shall do no manner of work; it shall be a perpetual statute throughout your ages in all your dwellings.

32 It shall be unto you a sabbath of sabbaths, and ye shall afflict your souls, beginning in the ninth day of the month in the evening, from evening unto evening, shall ye rest on your sabbath.

33 And the LORD spoke unto Moses, saying,