Leviticus - 23:31



31 You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

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Explanation and meaning of Leviticus 23:31.

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You shall do no work therefore on that day: it shall be an everlasting ordinance unto you in all your generations, and dwellings.
No manner of work shall ye do: it is an everlasting statute throughout your generations in all your dwellings.
ye do no work, a statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings.
You may not do any sort of work: this is an order for ever through all your generations wherever you may be living.
Therefore, you shall do no work on that day. This shall be an everlasting ordinance for you in all your generations and dwelling places.
Nullum opus facietis: statutum perpetuum erit in generationibus vestris, in cunctis habitationibus vestris.

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

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.

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