Leviticus 16:31
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For it is a sabbath of rest: and you shall afflict your souls by a perpetual religion.

Leviticus 23:32
It is a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls beginning on the ninth day of the month. From evening until evening you shall celebrate your sabbaths.

Ezra 8:21
And I proclaimed there a fast by the river Ahava, that we might afflict ourselves before the Lord our God, and might ask of him a right way for us and for our children, and for all our substance.

Isaiah 58:3
Why have we fasted, and thou hast not regarded: have we humbled our souls, and thou hast not taken notice? Behold in the day of your fast your own will is found, and you exact of all your debtors.

Isaiah 58:5
Is this such a fast as I have chosen: for a man to afflict his soul for a day? is this it, to wind his head about like a circle, and to spread sackcloth and ashes? wilt thou call this a fast, and a day acceptable to the Lord?

Daniel 10:12
And he said to me: Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thy heart to understand, to afflict thyself in the sight of thy God, thy words have been heard: and I am come for thy words.

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For it is a sabbath of rest: and you shall afflict your souls by a perpetual religion.

Leviticus 23:32 It is a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls beginning on the ninth day of the month. From evening until evening you shall celebrate your sabbaths.

Leviticus 25:4 But in the seventh year there shall be a sabbath to the land, of the resting of the Lord. Thou shalt not sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

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 35:2 Six days you shall do work; the seventh day shall be holy unto you, the sabbath and the rest of the Lord: he that shall do any work on it, shall be put to death.

Context
The Day of Atonement
30Upon this day shall be the expiation for you, and the cleansing from all your sins. You shall be cleansed before the Lord. 31For it is a sabbath of rest: and you shall afflict your souls by a perpetual religion.32And the priest that is anointed, and whose hands are consecrated to do the office of the priesthood in his father's stead, shall make atonement. And he shall be vested with the linen robe and the holy vestments.…
Lexicon
It
הִיא֙ (hî)
Pronoun - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

is a Sabbath
שַׁבַּ֨ת (šab·baṯ)
Noun - common singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 7676: Intermission, the Sabbath

of solemn rest
שַׁבָּת֥וֹן (šab·bā·ṯō·wn)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7677: Sabbath observance, sabbatism

for you,
לָכֶ֔ם (lā·ḵem)
Preposition | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew

that you may humble
וְעִנִּיתֶ֖ם (wə·‘in·nî·ṯem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6031: To be bowed down or afflicted

your souls;
נַפְשֹׁתֵיכֶ֑ם (nap̄·šō·ṯê·ḵem)
Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

it is a permanent
עוֹלָֽם׃ (‘ō·w·lām)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5769: Concealed, eternity, frequentatively, always

statute.
חֻקַּ֖ת (ḥuq·qaṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2708: Something prescribed, an enactment, statute


Additional Translations
It is a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, that you may humble your souls; it is a permanent statute.It shall be a sabbath of rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.

It is a sabbath of solemn rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; it is a statute for ever.

This shall be to you a most holy sabbath, a rest, and ye shall humble your souls; it is a perpetual ordinance.

A sabbath of rest shall it be unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls: [it is] an everlasting statute.

It is a sabbath of solemn rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls; it is a statute for ever.

It shall be a sabbath of rest to you, and ye shall afflict your souls by a statute for ever.

It is a Sabbath of solemn rest to you, and you shall afflict your souls; it is a statute forever.

it is to you a sabbath of rest, and ye have humbled yourselves -- a statute age-during.
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