Exodus 31:16
Good News Translation
The people of Israel are to keep this day as a sign of the covenant.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore the Israelites shall keep the sabbath, observing the sabbath throughout their generations, as a perpetual covenant.

Contemporary English Version
Every generation of Israelites must respect the Sabbath.

New American Bible
So shall the Israelites observe the sabbath, keeping it throughout their generations as an everlasting covenant.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let the children of Israel keep the sabbath, and celebrate it in their generations. It is an everlasting covenant

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Let the children of Israel keep the sabbath, and celebrate it in their generations. It is an everlasting covenant

a perpetual covenant

Genesis 9:13 I will set my bow in the clouds, and it shall be the sign of a covenant between me and between the earth.

Genesis 17:11 And you shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskin, that it may be for a sign of the covenant between me and you.

Jeremiah 50:5 They shall ask the way to Sion, their faces are hitherward. They shall come, and shall be joined to the Lord by an everlasting covenant, which shall never be forgotten.

Context
The Sign of the Sabbath
15Six days shall you do work: in the seventh day is the sabbath, the rest holy to the Lord. Every one that shall do any work on this day, shall die. 16Let the children of Israel keep the sabbath, and celebrate it in their generations. It is an everlasting covenant17Between me and the children of Israel, and a perpetual sign. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased from work.…
Cross References
Exodus 31:15
Six days shall you do work: in the seventh day is the sabbath, the rest holy to the Lord. Every one that shall do any work on this day, shall die.

Exodus 31:17
Between me and the children of Israel, and a perpetual sign. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and in the seventh he ceased from work.

Isaiah 58:13
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy own will in my holy day, and call the sabbath delightful, and the holy of the Lord glorious, and glorify him, while thou dost not thy own ways, and thy own will is not found, to speak a word:

Exodus 31:15
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