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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

שֵׁ֤שֶׁת יָמִים֙ תַּעֲבֹ֔ד וּבַיּ֥וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֖י תִּשְׁבֹּ֑ת בֶּחָרִ֥ישׁ וּבַקָּצִ֖יר תִּשְׁבֹּֽת׃

Transliteration

šēšet yāmîm taʿăbōd û-ba-yôm ha-šəbîʿî tišbōt in-ḥārîš û-ba-qāṣîr tišbōt

Grammar Details

• *šēšet*: feminine singular construct - six of
• *yāmîm*: masculine plural - days
• *taʿăbōd*: Qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you shall work/labor
• *û-ba-yôm*: conjunction + preposition + definite article + masculine singular - and on the day
• *ha-šəbîʿî*: definite article + ordinal adjective masculine singular - the seventh
• *tišbōt*: Qal imperfect 2nd masculine singular - you shall rest/cease
• *ḥārîš*: masculine singular - plowing
• *û-ba-qāṣîr*: conjunction + preposition + definite article + masculine singular - and in the harvest

Word Meanings

• *taʿăbōd*: work/labor/serve
• *tišbōt*: rest/cease/desist
• *ḥārîš*: plowing time/plowing/cultivation
• *qāṣîr*: harvest/harvesting time

Other Translations

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  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.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  Six{H8337} days{H3117} thou shalt work,{H5647} but on the seventh{H7637} day{H3117} thou shalt rest:{H7673} in plowing time{H2758} and in harvest{H7105} thou shalt rest.{H7673}

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  Six{H8337} days{H3117} thou shalt work{H5647}{(H8799)}, but on the seventh{H7637} day{H3117} thou shalt rest{H7673}{(H8799)}: in earing time{H2758} and in harvest{H7105} thou shalt rest{H7673}{(H8799)}.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Sixe dayes thou shalt worke, and the seueth thou shalt rest: both from earynge and reapynge.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Sixe dayes shalt thou labor, vpon ye seueth daye shalt thou rest both from plowinge and reapynge.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Six dayes shalt thou worke, and in the seuenth day thou shalt rest: both in earing time, and in the haruest thou shalt rest.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Sixe dayes thou shalt worke, and in the seuenth day thou shalt rest, both from earyng and reapyng.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

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

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  `Six days thou dost work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest; in ploughing-time and in harvest thou dost rest.

• 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.

• 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.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  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.

• World English Bible (2000)

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

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  “On six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; even at the time of plowing and of harvest you are to rest.

Referenced Verses

• 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.