Leviticus 23:31

31 Don't do any work that day - none. This is a perpetual decree for all the generations to come, wherever you happen to be living.

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 Anyone who doesn't fast on that day must be cut off from his people.
30 I will destroy from among his people anyone who works on that day.
31 Don't do any work that day - none. This is a perpetual decree for all the generations to come, wherever you happen to be living.
32 It is a Sabbath of complete and total rest, a fast day. Observe your Sabbath from the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening."
33 God said to Moses,
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