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Exd 31:17 — It [is] a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

a sign		Exd 31:13; Eze 20:12,20
six days		Gen 1:31; Gen 2:2,3; Hbr 4:3,4,10
and was refreshed		God, in condescension to human weakness, applies to himself here what belongs to man; though it may refer to the delight and satisfaction with which he contemplated the completion of all his works, and pronounced them very good. Gen 1:31; Job 38:7; Psa 104:31; Jer 32:41

Correlating Passages

a sign

	Exd 31:13	Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it [is] a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that [ye] may know that I [am] the LORD that doth sanctify you.
	Eze 20:12	Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I [am] the LORD that sanctify them.
	Eze 20:20	And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I [am] the LORD your God.

six days

	Gen 1:31	And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
	Gen 2:2	And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
	Gen 2:3	And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
	Hbr 4:3	For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
	Hbr 4:4	For he spake in a certain place of the seventh [day] on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.
	Hbr 4:10	For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God [did] from his.

and was refreshed

	Gen 1:31	And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, [it was] very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
	Job 38:7	When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
	Psa 104:31	The glory of the LORD shall endure for ever: the LORD shall rejoice in his works.
	Jer 32:41	Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul.

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Scott, Thomas. "Exodus 31:17," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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