Exodus 34:21

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Exod 23:12 : 12 Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed.
  • Exod 35:2 : 2 Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of solemn rest to Jehovah: whosoever doeth any work therein shall be put to death.
  • Deut 21:4 : 4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
  • Luke 13:14 : 14 And the ruler of the synagogue, being moved with indignation because Jesus had healed on the sabbath, answered and said to the multitude, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the day of the sabbath.
  • Luke 23:56 : 56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments. And on the sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
  • 1 Sam 8:12 : 12 and he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
  • Isa 30:24 : 24 the oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savory provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
  • Deut 5:12-15 : 12 Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee. 13 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; 14 but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou. 15 And thou shalt remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah thy God brought thee out thence by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Jehovah thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.
  • Gen 45:6 : 6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.
  • Exod 20:9-9 : 9 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; 10 but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11 for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 23:10-12
    3 verses
    85%

    10And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof:

    11but the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beast of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, [and] with thy oliveyard.

    12Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed.

  • Exod 20:8-11
    4 verses
    84%

    8Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

    9Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;

    10but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

    11for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

  • Lev 23:3
    84%

    3Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of work: it is a sabbath unto Jehovah in all your dwellings.

  • Deut 5:12-14
    3 verses
    83%

    12Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee.

    13Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;

    14but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou.

  • Exod 34:22
    82%

    22And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, [even] of the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

  • Lev 25:2-6
    5 verses
    81%

    2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land which I give you, then shall the land keep a sabbath unto Jehovah.

    3Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruits thereof;

    4but in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a sabbath unto Jehovah: thou shalt neither sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard.

    5That which groweth of itself of thy harvest thou shalt not reap, and the grapes of thy undressed vine thou shalt not gather: it shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

    6And the sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for thee, and for thy servant and for thy maid, and for thy hired servant and for thy stranger, who sojourn with thee.

  • Exod 35:2
    81%

    2Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of solemn rest to Jehovah: whosoever doeth any work therein shall be put to death.

  • Exod 31:14-17
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    80%

    14Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that profaneth it shall surely be put to death; for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

    15Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Jehovah; whosoever doeth any work on the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

    16Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

    17It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

  • Deut 16:8-9
    2 verses
    80%

    8Six days thou shalt eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Jehovah thy God; thou shalt do no work [therein] .

    9Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: from the time thou beginnest to put the sickle to the standing grain shalt thou begin to number seven weeks.

  • Num 28:25-26
    2 verses
    78%

    25And on the seventh day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work.

    26Also in the day of the first-fruits, when ye offer a new meal-offering unto Jehovah in your [feast of] weeks, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work;

  • Exod 16:29-30
    2 verses
    77%

    29See, for that Jehovah hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

    30So the people rested on the seventh day.

  • Exod 16:26
    77%

    26Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.

  • Gen 2:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.

    3And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.

  • Exod 23:16
    76%

    16and the feast of harvest, the first-fruits of thy labors, which thou sowest in the field: and the feast of ingathering, at the end of the year, when thou gatherest in thy labors out of the field.

  • Lev 23:31-32
    2 verses
    76%

    31Ye shall do no manner of work: it is a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

    32It shall be unto you a sabbath of solemn rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye keep your sabbath.

  • Heb 4:4
    75%

    4For he hath said somewhere of the seventh [day] on this wise, And God rested on the seventh day from all his works;

  • Exod 12:16
    75%

    16And in the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.

  • Lev 23:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7In the first day ye shall have a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work.

    8But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto Jehovah seven days: in the seventh day is a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.

  • Lev 23:21
    75%

    21And ye shall make proclamation on the selfsame day; there shall be a holy convocation unto you; ye shall do no servile work: it is a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

  • Num 29:35
    75%

    35On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no servile work;

  • Num 28:18
    74%

    18In the first day shall be a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work;

  • Lev 25:20
    74%

    20And if ye shall say, What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;

  • Deut 16:15
    74%

    15Seven days shalt thou keep a feast unto Jehovah thy God in the place which Jehovah shall choose; because Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the work of thy hands, and thou shalt be altogether joyful.

  • Lev 23:35
    74%

    35On the first day shall be a holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work.

  • Lev 26:35
    74%

    35As long as it lieth desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it had not in your sabbaths, when ye dwelt upon it.

  • Lev 23:39
    74%

    39Howbeit on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruits of the land, ye shall keep the feast of Jehovah seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.

  • Jer 17:22
    73%

    22neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do ye any work: but hallow ye the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

  • Exod 22:30
    73%

    30Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, [and] with thy sheep: seven days it shall be with its dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give it me.