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Exodus 34:21

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

KJV

Sex diebus operaberis ; die septimo cessabis arare et metere.

Vulgate

ἓξ ἡμέρας ἐργᾷ, τῇ δὲ ἑβδόμῃ κατάπαυσις· τῷ σπόρῳ καὶ τῷ ἀμήτῳ κατάπαυσις.

LXX

Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

ASV

שֵׁ֤שֶׁת יָמִים֙ תַּעֲבֹ֔ד וּ/בַ/יּ֥וֹם הַ/שְּׁבִיעִ֖י תִּשְׁבֹּ֑ת בֶּ/חָרִ֥ישׁ וּ/בַ/קָּצִ֖יר תִּשְׁבֹּֽת

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

הִשְׁבַּתִּי֙
hshbty
verb · 71×
וֹ֙
v
noun · 3×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
ם
m
verb · 287×
קְצִיר
qtsyr
noun · 53×
שֵׁ֥שׁ
shsh
adjective · 215×
שְּׁבִיעִ֔י
shby'y
adjective · 98×

Historic Christian voices

2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 8:12 — And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his cha
  • Deut 5:12 — Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
  • Deut 21:4 — And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer’s neck there in the valley:
  • Exod 20:9 — Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
  • Exod 20:10 — But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger tha
  • Exod 23:12 — Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
  • Exod 23:12 — Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
  • Exod 31:15 — Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
  • Exod 35:2 — Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.
  • Exod 35:2 — Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.
  • Gen 2:3 — And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
  • Gen 8:22 — While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
  • Isa 30:24 — The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
  • Lev 23:3 — Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
  • Luke 13:14 — And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore c
  • Luke 23:56 — And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
  • Neh 13:15 — In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Je