Exodus 23:12

World English Bible (2000)

"Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the alien may be refreshed.

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  • Exod 20:8-9 : 8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 You shall labor six days, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; 11 for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.
  • Luke 13:14 : 14 The ruler of the synagogue, being indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the multitude, "There are six days in which men ought to work. Therefore come on those days and be healed, and not on the Sabbath day!"
  • Exod 31:15-16 : 15 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death. 16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
  • Exod 34:21 : 21 "Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
  • Exod 35:3 : 3 You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.'"
  • Deut 5:13-15 : 13 You shall labor six days, and do all your work; 14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which 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 livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15 You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
  • Isa 58:3 : 3 'Why have we fasted,' [say they], 'and you don't see? [why] have we afflicted our soul, and you take no knowledge?' "Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure, and exact all your labors.

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  • Deut 5:12-15
    4 verses
    90%

    12 "Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.

    13 You shall labor six days, and do all your work;

    14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God, in which 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 livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

    15 You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

  • Exod 34:20-21
    2 verses
    85%

    20 The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb: and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. No one shall appear before me empty.

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

  • Exod 20:8-11
    4 verses
    85%

    8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.

    9 You shall labor six days, and do all your work,

    10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;

    11 for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.

  • Exod 23:10-11
    2 verses
    82%

    10 "For six years you shall sow your land, and shall gather in its increase,

    11 but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the animal of the field shall eat. In the same way, you shall deal with your vineyard and with your olive grove.

  • Lev 23:3
    80%

    3 "'Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.

  • Lev 25:3-7
    5 verses
    78%

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

    4 but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to Yahweh. You shall not sow your field or prune your vineyard.

    5 What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.

    6 The Sabbath of the land shall be for food for you; for yourself, for your servant, for your maid, for your hired servant, and for your stranger, who lives as a foreigner with you.

    7 For your livestock also, and for the animals that are in your land, shall all its increase be for food.

  • Exod 35:2
    76%

    2 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.

  • Exod 31:15
    74%

    15 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

  • Deut 16:8
    74%

    8 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread; and on the seventh day shall be a solemn assembly to Yahweh your God; you shall do no work [therein].

  • Exod 22:30
    74%

    30 You shall do likewise with your cattle and with your sheep. Seven days it shall be with its mother, then on the eighth day you shall give it to me.

  • Exod 16:29-30
    2 verses
    74%

    29 Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."

    30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

  • Exod 23:13
    74%

    13 "Be careful to do all things that I have said to you; and don't invoke the name of other gods, neither let them be heard out of your mouth.

  • Gen 2:2-3
    2 verses
    73%

    2 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.

    3 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.

  • Num 28:25
    73%

    25 On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work.

  • Exod 31:17
    73%

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

  • Exod 23:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4 "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again.

    5 If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don't leave him, you shall surely help him with it.

  • Deut 22:10
    72%

    10 You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

  • Deut 22:4
    72%

    4 You shall not see your brother's donkey or his ox fallen down by the way, and hide yourself from them: you shall surely help him to lift them up again.

  • Lev 23:31-32
    2 verses
    71%

    31 You shall do no kind of work: it is a statute forever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

    32 It shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for you, and you shall deny yourselves. In the ninth day of the month at evening, from evening to evening, you shall keep your Sabbath."

  • Lev 23:8
    71%

    8 But you shall offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh seven days. In the seventh day is a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.'"

  • Deut 24:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14 You shall not oppress a hired servant who is poor and needy, whether he be of your brothers, or of your foreigners who are in your land within your gates:

    15 in his day you shall give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down on it; for he is poor, and sets his heart on it: lest he cry against you to Yahweh, and it be sin to you.

  • Deut 15:12
    71%

    12 If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

  • Num 29:35
    71%

    35 "'On the eighth day you shall have a solemn assembly: you shall do no servile work;

  • Deut 25:4
    71%

    4 You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].

  • Exod 20:17
    71%

    17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."

  • Jer 17:22
    71%

    22 neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day holy, neither do any work: but make the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

  • Heb 4:4
    71%

    4 For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, "God rested on the seventh day from all his works;"

  • Exod 21:2
    71%

    2 "If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

  • Exod 12:16
    71%

    16 In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.

  • Exod 16:26
    70%

    26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none."

  • Lev 26:35
    70%

    35 As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it.

  • Isa 14:3
    70%

    3 It will happen in the day that Yahweh will give you rest from your sorrow, from your trouble, and from the hard service in which you were made to serve,