Verse 21

You are to work for six days, but on the seventh day you must rest—even during the plowing season and the harvest you must rest.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 23:12 : 12 For six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant and the foreigner may be refreshed.
  • Exod 35:2 : 2 Work is to be done for six days, but the seventh day will be holy to you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death.
  • Deut 21:4 : 4 and they are to bring the heifer down to a valley with flowing water, a valley that has not been plowed or sown. There they are to break the heifer’s neck.
  • Luke 13:14 : 14 But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, 'There are six days for work. So come to be healed on those days, not on the Sabbath.'
  • Luke 23:56 : 56 Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.
  • 1 Sam 8:12 : 12 He will appoint them as commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties. Some will plow his fields, reap his harvest, and make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.
  • Isa 30:24 : 24 The oxen and donkeys that work the soil will eat fodder and mash, spread out with fork and shovel.
  • Deut 5:12-15 : 12 Observe the Sabbath day to keep it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you. 13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work. 14 But the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female servant, your ox, your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the foreigner residing in your towns—so that your male and female servants may rest as you do. 15 Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore, the LORD your God has commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
  • Gen 45:6 : 6 For two years now, there has been famine in the land, and for the next five years, there will be no plowing or harvesting.
  • Exod 20:9-9 : 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your livestock, nor any foreigner residing within your gates. 11 For in six days, the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but He rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.