Exodus 34:21

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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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  • 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.

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  • Exod 23:10-12
    3 verses
    85%

    10 For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce.

    11 But during the seventh year, you are to let it rest and leave it unplowed, so that the poor among your people may eat, and whatever they leave, the wild animals may eat. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

    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 20:8-11
    4 verses
    84%

    8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

    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.

  • Lev 23:3
    84%

    3 For six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.

  • Deut 5:12-14
    3 verses
    83%

    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.

  • Exod 34:22
    82%

    22 Observe the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

  • Lev 25:2-6
    5 verses
    81%

    2 Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you come into the land that I am giving you, the land will observe a Sabbath to the LORD.

    3 For six years, you may sow your field and prune your vineyard, and gather its produce;

    4 but in the seventh year, the land must have a Sabbath of complete rest, a Sabbath to the LORD. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

    5 You shall not harvest what grows by itself after your harvest, nor gather the grapes of your unpruned vines. It will be a year of complete rest for the land.

    6 During this Sabbath of the land, all its produce will be food for you—for yourself, your servants, your hired workers, and the resident foreigners who live among you,

  • Exod 35:2
    81%

    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.

  • Exod 31:14-17
    4 verses
    80%

    14 You shall keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Anyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among their people.

    15 For six days, work shall be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

    16 The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it as a perpetual covenant for their generations.

    17 It is a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, but on the seventh day he rested and was refreshed.

  • Deut 16:8-9
    2 verses
    80%

    8 For six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a solemn assembly to the Lord your God. You must not do any work.

    9 Count seven weeks from the time you begin to harvest the grain with the sickle.

  • Num 28:25-26
    2 verses
    78%

    25 On the seventh day, you shall have a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work.

    26 On the day of firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the LORD during the Feast of Weeks, hold a sacred assembly. You are not to do any regular work.

  • Exod 16:29-30
    2 verses
    77%

    29 Understand that the LORD has given you the sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where they are; no one is to go out on the seventh day."

    30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

  • Exod 16:26
    77%

    26 For six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the sabbath, there will not be any."

  • Gen 2:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    2 On the seventh day, God finished the work He had been doing. On that day, He rested from all the work He had accomplished.

    3 Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work of creation that He had done.

  • Exod 23:16
    76%

    16 Celebrate the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of your work, of what you sow in the field, and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather in your produce from the field.

  • Lev 23:31-32
    2 verses
    76%

    31 You must not do any work. This is a perpetual statute for your generations in all your dwellings.

    32 It shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for you, and you shall humble yourselves. It begins on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening you shall observe your Sabbath.

  • Heb 4:4
    75%

    4 For somewhere He has said this about the seventh day: "And God rested on the seventh day from all His works."

  • Exod 12:16
    75%

    16 On the first day you shall hold a sacred assembly, and on the seventh day also a sacred assembly. No work shall be done on those days, except what each person must eat—that alone may be prepared by you.

  • Lev 23:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7 On the first day, hold a holy assembly; you must not do any regular work.

    8 For seven days you are to present a fire offering to the Lord. On the seventh day, hold a holy assembly; you must not do any regular work.

  • Lev 23:21
    75%

    21 On that same day you shall proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This shall be a perpetual statute for all your generations in all your dwellings.

  • Num 29:35
    75%

    35 On the eighth day, hold a solemn assembly. You shall do no regular work.

  • Num 28:18
    74%

    18 The first day shall be a sacred assembly. You are not to do any regular work.

  • Lev 25:20
    74%

    20 If you say, 'What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow or gather our crops?'

  • Deut 16:15
    74%

    15 For seven days celebrate the festival to the Lord your God at the place the Lord will choose. For the Lord your God will bless you in all your harvest and in all the work of your hands, and your joy will be complete.

  • Lev 23:35
    74%

    35 On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work.

  • Lev 26:35
    74%

    35 As long as it lies desolate, it will have the rest it did not have during the sabbaths while you lived there.

  • Lev 23:39
    74%

    39 However, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you gather in the produce of the land, you must celebrate the Lord's Festival for seven days. The first day shall be a day of rest, and the eighth day shall also be a day of rest.

  • Jer 17:22
    73%

    22 Do not bring any load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors.

  • Exod 22:30
    73%

    30 You are to be holy to me. Do not eat meat torn by wild animals in the field; throw it to the dogs.