Exodus 23:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Exod 20:8-9 : 8 Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day. 9 On six days do all your work: 10 But 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: 11 For 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.
  • Luke 13:14 : 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.
  • Exod 31:15-16 : 15 Six 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. 16 And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy, from generation to generation, by an eternal agreement.
  • Exod 34:21 : 21 Six 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.
  • Exod 35:3 : 3 No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day.
  • Deut 5:13-15 : 13 On six days do all your work: 14 But 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. 15 And 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.
  • Isa 58:3 : 3 They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;

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  • Deut 5:12-15
    4 verses
    90%

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

    13 On six days do all your work:

    14 But 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.

    15 And 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.

  • Exod 34:20-21
    2 verses
    85%

    20 A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass, but if you will not make payment for it, its neck will have to be broken. For all the first of your sons you are to make payment. No one is to come before me without an offering.

    21 Six 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.

  • Exod 20:8-11
    4 verses
    85%

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

    9 On six days do all your work:

    10 But 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:

    11 For 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.

  • Exod 23:10-11
    2 verses
    82%

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

    11 But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees.

  • Lev 23:3
    80%

    3 On 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.

  • Lev 25:3-7
    5 verses
    78%

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

    4 But let the seventh year be a Sabbath of rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord; do not put seed into your land or have your vines cut.

    5 That which comes to growth of itself may not be cut, and the grapes of your uncared-for vines may not be taken off; let it be a year of rest for the land.

    6 And the Sabbath of the land will give food for you and your man-servant and your woman-servant and those working for payment, and for those of another country who are living among you;

    7 And for your cattle and the beasts on the land; all the natural increase of the land will be for food.

  • Exod 35:2
    76%

    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.

  • Exod 31:15
    74%

    15 Six 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.

  • Deut 16:8
    74%

    8 For 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.

  • Exod 22:30
    74%

    30 In the same way with your oxen and your sheep: for seven days let the young one be with its mother; on the eighth day give it to me.

  • Exod 16:29-30
    2 verses
    74%

    29 See, 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.

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

  • Exod 23:13
    74%

    13 Take 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.

  • Gen 2:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 And 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.

    3 And 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.

  • Num 28:25
    73%

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

  • Exod 31:17
    73%

    17 It 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.

  • Exod 23:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4 If you come across the ox or the ass of one who is no friend to you wandering from its way, you are to take it back to him.

    5 If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire.

  • Deut 22:10
    72%

    10 Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together.

  • Deut 22:4
    72%

    4 If you see your brother's ox or his ass falling down on the road, do not go by without giving him help in lifting it up again.

  • Lev 23:31-32
    2 verses
    71%

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

    32 Let this be a Sabbath of special rest to you, and keep yourselves from all pleasure; on the ninth day of the month at nightfall from evening to evening, let this Sabbath be kept.

  • Lev 23:8
    71%

    8 And 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.

  • Deut 24:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land.

    15 Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.

  • Deut 15:12
    71%

    12 If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.

  • Num 29:35
    71%

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

  • Deut 25:4
    71%

    4 Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.

  • Exod 20:17
    71%

    17 Let not your desire be turned to your neighbour's house, or his wife or his man-servant or his woman-servant or his ox or his ass or anything which is his.

  • Jer 17:22
    71%

    22 And 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;

  • Heb 4:4
    71%

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

  • Exod 21:2
    71%

    2 If you get a Hebrew servant for money, he is to be your servant for six years, and in the seventh year you are to let him go free without payment.

  • Exod 12:16
    71%

    16 And 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.

  • Exod 16:26
    70%

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

  • Lev 26:35
    70%

    35 All the days while it is waste will the land have rest, such rest as it never had in your Sabbaths, when you were living in it.

  • Isa 14:3
    70%

    3 And it will be, in the day when the Lord gives you rest from your sorrow, and from your trouble, and from the hard yoke which they had put on you,