Deuteronomy 5:13

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You are to work and do all your tasks in six days,

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 23:12 : 12 For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, in order that your ox and your donkey may rest and that your female servant’s son and the resident foreigner may refresh themselves.
  • Exod 35:2-3 : 2 In six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Anyone who does work on it will be put to death. 3 You must not kindle a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.”
  • Ezek 20:12 : 12 I also gave them my Sabbaths as a reminder of our relationship, so that they would know that I, the LORD, sanctify them.
  • Luke 13:14-16 : 14 But the president of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd,“There are six days on which work should be done! So come and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day.” 15 Then the Lord answered him,“You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from its stall, and lead it to water? 16 Then shouldn’t this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan bound for eighteen long years, be released from this imprisonment on the Sabbath day?”
  • Luke 23:56 : 56 Then they returned and prepared aromatic spices and perfumes. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Exod 20:8-12
    5 verses
    93%

    8“Remember the Sabbath day to set it apart as holy.

    9For six days you may labor and do all your work,

    10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God; on it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates.

    11For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, and he rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.

    12“Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you.

  • Deut 5:14-16
    3 verses
    84%

    14but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. On that day you must not do any work, you, your son, your daughter, your male slave, your female slave, your ox, your donkey, any other animal, or the resident foreigner who lives with you, so that your male and female slaves, like yourself, may have rest.

    15Recall that you were slaves in the land of Egypt and that the LORD your God brought you out of there by strength and power. That is why the LORD your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

    16Honor your father and your mother just as the LORD your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.

  • Exod 34:21
    83%

    21“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.

  • Deut 5:11-12
    2 verses
    82%

    11You must not make use of the name of the LORD your God for worthless purposes, for the LORD will not exonerate anyone who abuses his name that way.

    12Be careful to observe the Sabbath day just as the LORD your God has commanded you.

  • Exod 23:12-13
    2 verses
    82%

    12For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, in order that your ox and your donkey may rest and that your female servant’s son and the resident foreigner may refresh themselves.

    13“Pay attention to do everything I have told you, and do not even mention the names of other gods– do not let them be heard on your lips.

  • Lev 23:3
    81%

    3The Weekly Sabbath“‘Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the LORD in all the places where you live.

  • Exod 31:14-15
    2 verses
    80%

    14So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you. Everyone who defiles it must surely be put to death; indeed, if anyone does any work on it, then that person will be cut off from among his people.

    15Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD; anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.

  • Exod 35:2-3
    2 verses
    80%

    2In six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Anyone who does work on it will be put to death.

    3You must not kindle a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.”

  • Deut 16:8
    79%

    8You must eat bread made without yeast for six days. The seventh day you are to hold an assembly for the LORD your God; you must not do any work on that day.

  • Num 28:25
    76%

    25On the seventh day you are to have a holy assembly, you must do no regular work.

  • Exod 16:26
    75%

    26Six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”

  • Exod 23:10
    75%

    10Sabbaths and Feasts“For six years you are to sow your land and gather in its produce.

  • Exod 16:29-30
    2 verses
    75%

    29See, because the LORD has given you the Sabbath, that is why he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”

    30So the people rested on the seventh day.

  • Num 29:35
    74%

    35“‘On the eighth day you are to have a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work on it.

  • Lev 25:3
    74%

    3Six years you may sow your field, and six years you may prune your vineyard and gather the produce,

  • Lev 23:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7On the first day there will be a holy assembly for you; you must not do any regular work.

    8You must present a gift to the LORD for seven days, and the seventh day is a holy assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”

  • Jer 17:22
    74%

    22Do not carry any loads out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day. But observe the Sabbath day as a day set apart to the LORD, as I commanded your ancestors.

  • Deut 16:15
    74%

    15You are to celebrate the festival seven days before the LORD your God in the place he chooses, for he will bless you in all your productivity and in whatever you do; so you will indeed rejoice!

  • Lev 23:31
    73%

    31You must not do any work. This is a perpetual statute throughout your generations in all the places where you live.

  • Gen 2:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2By the seventh day God finished the work that he had been doing, and he ceased on the seventh day all the work that he had been doing.

    3God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation.

  • Isa 58:13
    72%

    13You must observe the Sabbath rather than doing anything you please on my holy day. You must look forward to the Sabbath and treat the LORD’s holy day with respect. You must treat it with respect by refraining from your normal activities, and by refraining from your selfish pursuits and from making business deals.

  • Exod 13:6
    71%

    6For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast, and on the seventh day there is to be a festival to the LORD.

  • Lev 23:35-36
    2 verses
    71%

    35On the first day is a holy assembly; you must do no regular work.

    36For seven days you must present a gift to the LORD. On the eighth day there is to be a holy assembly for you, and you must present a gift to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly day; you must not do any regular work.

  • Exod 31:17
    71%

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

  • John 5:17
    71%

    17So he told them,“My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”

  • Exod 12:16
    71%

    16On the first day there will be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there will be a holy convocation for you. You must do no work of any kind on them, only what every person will eat– that alone may be prepared for you.

  • Deut 5:7
    71%

    7You must not have any other gods besides me.

  • Num 28:18
    70%

    18And on the first day there is to be a holy assembly; you must do no ordinary work on it.

  • Heb 4:4
    70%

    4For he has spoken somewhere about the seventh day in this way:“And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,”

  • Lev 23:28
    70%

    28You must not do any work on this particular day, because it is a day of atonement to make atonement for yourselves before the LORD your God.

  • Exod 5:17-18
    2 verses
    70%

    17But Pharaoh replied,“You are slackers! Slackers! That is why you are saying,‘Let us go sacrifice to the LORD.’”

    18So now, get back to work! You will not be given straw, but you must still produce your quota of bricks!”

  • Lev 19:13
    70%

    13You must not oppress your neighbor or commit robbery against him. You must not withhold the wages of the hired laborer overnight until morning.

  • Lev 23:25
    70%

    25You must not do any regular work, but you must present a gift to the LORD.