Leviticus 23:32
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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.

a sabbath

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

Matthew 11:28-30 Come to me all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you. . . .

Hebrews 4:3,11 For we, who have believed, shall enter into rest; as he said: As I have sworn in my wrath: If they shall enter into my rest; and this indeed when the works from the foundation of the world were finished. . . .

afflict

Leviticus 23:27 Upon the tenth day of this seventh month shall be the day of atonement. It shall be most solemn, and shall be called holy: and you shall await your souls on that day, and shall offer a holocaust to the Lord.

Psalm 25:13 His soul shall dwell in good things: and his seed shall inherit the land.

Psalm 51:17 A sacrifice to God is an afflicted spirit: a contrite and humbled heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

Psalm 69:10,11 And I covered my soul in fasting: and it was made a reproach to me. . . .

Psalm 126:5,6 They that sow in tears shall reap in joy. . . .

Isaiah 57:15,18,19 For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite. . . .

Isaiah 58:3-7 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 61:3 To appoint to the mourners of Sion, and to give them a crown for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, a garment of praise for the spirit of grief: and they shall be called in it the mighty ones of justice, the planting of the Lord to glorify him.

Matthew 5:4 Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land.

1 Corinthians 11:31 But if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

celebrate your sabbath [heb] rest

Context
The Day of Atonement
31You shall do no work therefore on that day: it shall be an everlasting ordinance unto you in all your generations, and dwellings. 32It 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.
Cross References
Leviticus 16:31
For it is a sabbath of rest: and you shall afflict your souls by a perpetual religion.

Leviticus 23:31
You shall do no work therefore on that day: it shall be an everlasting ordinance unto you in all your generations, and dwellings.

Leviticus 23:33
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:

Nehemiah 13:19
And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem were at rest on the sabbath day, I spoke: and they shut the gates, and I commanded that they should not open them till after the sabbath: and I set some of my servants at the gates, that none should bring in burthens on the sabbath day.

Lexicon
It
הוּא֙ (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

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

of complete 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

and you shall 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

From the evening
בָּעֶ֔רֶב (bā·‘e·reḇ)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6153: Evening

of the ninth
בְּתִשְׁעָ֤ה (bə·ṯiš·‘āh)
Preposition-b | Number - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8672: Nine, ninth

day of the month
לַחֹ֙דֶשׁ֙ (la·ḥō·ḏeš)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2320: The new moon, a month

until
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

the following evening
מֵעֶ֣רֶב (mê·‘e·reḇ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6153: Evening

you are to observe
תִּשְׁבְּת֖וּ (tiš·bə·ṯū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7673: To repose, desist from exertion

your Sabbath.’”
שַׁבַּתְּכֶֽם׃ (šab·bat·tə·ḵem)
Noun - common singular construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7676: Intermission, the Sabbath


Additional Translations
It will be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble your souls. From the evening of the ninth day of the month until the following evening you are to observe your Sabbath.”It shall be to you a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even to even, shall you celebrate your sabbath.

It shall be unto you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye keep your sabbath.

It shall be a holy sabbath to you; and ye shall humble your souls, from the ninth day of the month: from evening to evening ye shall keep your sabbaths.

A sabbath of rest shall it be unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls. On the ninth of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

It shall be unto you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye keep your sabbath.

It shall be to you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls in the ninth day of the month at evening: from evening to evening shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath."

It is a sabbath of rest to you, and ye have humbled yourselves in the ninth of the month at even; from evening till evening ye do keep your sabbath.'
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