Deuteronomy 5:13

Bible in Basic English (1941)

On six days do all your work:

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 23:12 : 12 For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.
  • Exod 35:2-3 : 2 Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death. 3 No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day.
  • Ezek 20:12 : 12 And further, I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, so that it might be clear that I, who make them holy, am the Lord.
  • Luke 13:14-16 : 14 And the ruler of the Synagogue was angry because Jesus had made her well on the Sabbath, and he said to the people, There are six days in which men may do work: so come on those days to be made well, and not on the Sabbath. 15 But the Lord gave him an answer and said, O you false men! do you not, every one of you, on the Sabbath, let loose his ox and his ass and take it to the water? 16 And is it not right for this daughter of Abraham, who has been in the power of Satan for eighteen years, to be made free on the Sabbath?
  • Luke 23:56 : 56 And they went back and got ready spices and perfumes; and on the Sabbath they took their rest, in agreement with the law.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 20:8-12
    5 verses
    93%

    8Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day.

    9On six days do all your work:

    10But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you:

    11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and everything in them, and he took his rest on the seventh day: for this reason the Lord has given his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy.

    12Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Deut 5:14-16
    3 verses
    84%

    14But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you.

    15And keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God took you out of that land by his strong hand and his stretched-out arm: for this reason the Lord has given you orders to keep the Sabbath day.

    16Give honour to your father and your mother, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God; so that your life may be long and all may be well for you in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Exod 34:21
    83%

    21Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.

  • Deut 5:11-12
    2 verses
    82%

    11You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged as a sinner by the Lord.

    12Keep the Sabbath day as a holy day, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God.

  • Exod 23:12-13
    2 verses
    82%

    12For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.

    13Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or from your lips.

  • Lev 23:3
    81%

    3On six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a special day of rest, a time for worship; you may do no sort of work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you may be living.

  • Exod 31:14-15
    2 verses
    80%

    14So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off from his people.

    15Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.

  • Exod 35:2-3
    2 verses
    80%

    2Six days let work be done, but the seventh day is to be a holy day to you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on that day is to be put to death.

    3No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day.

  • Deut 16:8
    79%

    8For six days let your food be unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there is to be a holy meeting to the Lord your God; no work is to be done.

  • Num 28:25
    76%

    25Then on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.

  • Exod 16:26
    75%

    26For six days you will get it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.

  • Exod 23:10
    75%

    10For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase;

  • Exod 16:29-30
    2 verses
    75%

    29See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, he gives you on the sixth day bread enough for two days; let every man keep where he is; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.

    30So the people took their rest on the seventh day.

  • Num 29:35
    74%

    35On the eighth day let there be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work;

  • Lev 25:3
    74%

    3For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them;

  • Lev 23:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7On the first day you will have a holy meeting; you may do no sort of field-work.

    8And every day for seven days you will give a burned offering to the Lord; and on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.

  • Jer 17:22
    74%

    22And take no weight out of your houses on the Sabbath day, or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I gave orders to your fathers;

  • Deut 16:15
    74%

    15Keep the feast to the Lord your God for seven days, in the place marked out by the Lord: because the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all the produce of your land and all the work of your hands, and you will have nothing but joy.

  • Lev 23:31
    73%

    31You may not do any sort of work: this is an order for ever through all your generations wherever you may be living.

  • Gen 2:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2And on the seventh day God came to the end of all his work; and on the seventh day he took his rest from all the work which he had done.

    3And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.

  • Isa 58:13
    72%

    13If you keep the Sabbath with care, not doing your business on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after your pleasure, or saying unholy words;

  • Exod 13:6
    71%

    6For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord.

  • Lev 23:35-36
    2 verses
    71%

    35On the first day there will be a holy meeting: do no field-work.

    36Every day for seven days give an offering made by fire to the Lord; and on the eighth day there is to be a holy meeting, when you are to give an offering made by fire to the Lord; this is a special holy day: you may do no field-work on that day.

  • Exod 31:17
    71%

    17It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; because in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he took his rest and had pleasure in it.

  • John 5:17
    71%

    17But his answer was: My Father is still working even now, and so I am working.

  • Exod 12:16
    71%

    16And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is necessary for everyone's food.

  • Deut 5:7
    71%

    7You are to have no other gods but me.

  • Num 28:18
    70%

    18On the first day there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no sort of field-work:

  • Heb 4:4
    70%

    4For in one place he has said of the seventh day, And God had rest from all his works on the seventh day;

  • Lev 23:28
    70%

    28And on that day you may do no sort of work, for it is a day of taking away sin, to make you clean before the Lord your God.

  • Exod 5:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17But he said, You have no love for work: that is why you say, Let us go and make an offering to the Lord.

    18Go now, get back to your work; no dry stems will be given to you, but you are to make the full number of bricks.

  • Lev 19:13
    70%

    13Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.

  • Lev 23:25
    70%

    25Do no field-work and give to the Lord an offering made by fire.