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Exodus 34:21

WEB

21Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

KJV

21Six[+] days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

BSB

21Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

FBV

21You shall work for six days, but you shall rest on the seventh day. Even during the times of sowing and harvest you shall rest.

Related Resources

Book of Exodus Summary: A Complete Animated Overview (Part 2) - BibleProject
How Jesus Used Sabbath Controversies to Teach Us Stuff: The Mark Series part 10 (2:23-3:6) - Mike Winger

Extra References

Exodus 23:12

12Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant, and the alien may be refreshed.


Exodus 35:2

2Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to the LORD: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.


Deuteronomy 21:4

4The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.


1 Samuel 8:12

12He will appoint them to him for captains of thousands and captains of fifties; and he will assign some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest; and to make his instruments of war and the instruments of his chariots.


Luke 13:14

14The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, “There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!”


Luke 23:56

56They returned and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.


Deuteronomy 5:12-15

12Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you. 13You shall labor six days, and do all your work; 14but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, in which you shall not do any workneither you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. Therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.


Isaiah 30:24

24The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory feed, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.


Genesis 45:6

6For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be no plowing and no harvest.


Exodus 20:9-11

9You shall labor six days, and do all your work, 10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; 11for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.