Exodus 34:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

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  • Exod 23:12 : 12 Six days you shall work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your maidservant and the foreigner 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 rest to the LORD: whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.
  • Deut 21:4 : 4 And the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a rough valley, 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 answered with indignation, because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, and said to the people, There are six days on which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day.
  • Luke 23:56 : 56 Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments, and they rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.
  • 1 Sam 8:12 : 12 And he will appoint captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his weapons of war, and equipment for his chariots.
  • Isa 30:24 : 24 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat clean provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.
  • Deut 5:12-15 : 12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, 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 the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15 And remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out from there through a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep the sabbath day.
  • Gen 45:6 : 6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
  • Exod 20:9-9 : 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor the stranger who is within your gates. 11 For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

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  • Exod 23:10-12
    3 verses
    85%

    10Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce,

    11but in the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave, the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove.

    12Six days you shall work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your maidservant and the foreigner may be refreshed.

  • Exod 20:8-11
    4 verses
    84%

    8Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

    9Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

    10but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor the stranger who is within your gates.

    11For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

  • Lev 23:3
    84%

    3Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, a holy gathering; you shall do no work in it; it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.

  • Deut 5:12-14
    3 verses
    83%

    12Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

    13Six days you shall labor, and do all your work:

    14But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD your God: in it you shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

  • Exod 34:22
    82%

    22And you shall observe the feast of weeks, of the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.

  • Lev 25:2-6
    5 verses
    81%

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

    3Six years you shall sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyard, and gather in its fruits;

    4But in the seventh year shall be a sabbath of rest to the land, a sabbath for the LORD: you shall neither sow your field, nor prune your vineyard.

    5What grows of its own accord of your harvest you shall not reap, nor gather the grapes of your undressed vine: for it is a year of rest to the land.

    6And the sabbath of the land shall provide food for you; for you, and for your servant, and for your maid, and for your hired servant, and for the stranger who dwells with you,

  • 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 rest to the LORD: whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

  • Exod 31:14-17
    4 verses
    80%

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

    15Six days may work be done; but the seventh is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

    16Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, as a perpetual covenant.

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

  • Deut 16:8-9
    2 verses
    80%

    8Six days you shall eat unleavened bread: and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to the LORD your God: you shall do no work in it.

    9Seven weeks you shall number for yourself: begin to number the seven weeks from the time you begin to put the sickle to the grain.

  • Num 28:25-26
    2 verses
    78%

    25And on the seventh day you shall have a holy assembly; you shall do no servile work.

    26Also on the day of the firstfruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the LORD, after your weeks are completed, you shall have a holy assembly; you shall do no servile work:

  • Exod 16:29-30
    2 verses
    77%

    29See, the LORD has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain 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 you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will 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 sanctified it, because on it He had rested from all His work which God created and made.

  • Exod 23:16
    76%

    16and the Feast of Harvest, the firstfruits of your labors which you have sown in the field; and the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you have gathered in your labors from the field.

  • Lev 23:31-32
    2 verses
    76%

    31You shall do no manner of work; it shall be a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

    32It shall be to you a sabbath of rest, and you shall afflict your souls; on the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall celebrate your sabbath.

  • Heb 4:4
    75%

    4For he spoke in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested the seventh day from all his works."

  • Exod 12:16
    75%

    16And on the first day there shall be a holy assembly, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy assembly for you; no manner of work shall be done on them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.

  • Lev 23:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7On the first day you shall have a holy gathering: you shall do no servile work in it.

    8But you shall offer an offering made by fire to the LORD seven days; on the seventh day is a holy gathering; you shall do no servile work in it.

  • Lev 23:21
    75%

    21And you shall proclaim on the same day that it may be a holy gathering to you; you shall do no servile work in it; it shall be a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

  • Num 29:35
    75%

    35On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no servile work in it:

  • Num 28:18
    74%

    18On the first day shall be a holy assembly; you shall do no servile work therein:

  • Lev 25:20
    74%

    20And if you 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 you shall keep a solemn feast to the LORD your God in the place which the LORD shall choose: because the LORD your God shall bless you in all your increase, and in all the works of your hands, therefore you shall surely rejoice.

  • Lev 23:35
    74%

    35On the first day there shall be a holy gathering; you shall do no servile work in it.

  • Lev 26:35
    74%

    35As long as it lies desolate it shall rest; because it did not rest in your Sabbaths, when you dwelt upon it.

  • Lev 23:39
    74%

    39Also on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruit of the land, you shall keep a feast to the LORD seven days; on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath.

  • Jer 17:22
    73%

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

  • Exod 22:30
    73%

    30Likewise you shall do with your oxen and your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days; on the eighth day you shall give it to me.