“Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.”
You shall do no work at all. This is to be a lasting ordinance for the generations to come, wherever you live. No work at all — the absolute work cessation that makes the Day of Atonement the most complete Sabbath of the year. The lasting ordinance and wherever you live formulas make the Day of Atonement permanently binding across every generation and location. Hebrews 10:1–3 says the annual Day of Atonement could not make the worshippers perfect — the lasting ordinance of Leviticus 23:31 is fulfilled by the once-for-all offering of Christ that permanently accomplishes what the annual ceremony could only foreshadow.
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