Exodus 34:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.”
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“Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`Six days thou dost work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest; in ploughing-time and in harvest thou dost rest.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Exodus 34:21 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 45:6For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
- Exodus 20:9Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
- Exodus 20:10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.
- Exodus 23:12For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.
- Exodus 35:2For six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on that day must be put to death.
- Deuteronomy 5:12Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.
- Deuteronomy 21:4bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.
- 1 Samuel 8:12He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, to make his weapons of war, and to equip his chariots.
- Isaiah 30:24The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
- Luke 13:14But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath.”
- Luke 23:56Then they returned to prepare spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.
Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).