Exodus 34:21

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.

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  • Exod 23:12 : 12 "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.
  • Exod 35:2 : 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.
  • Deut 21:4 : 4 and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
  • 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!"
  • Luke 23:56 : 56 They returned, and prepared spices and ointments. On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.
  • 1 Sam 8:12 : 12 and he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
  • Isa 30:24 : 24 The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground will eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
  • Deut 5:12-15 : 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.
  • Gen 45:6 : 6 For these two years the famine has been in the land, and there are yet five years, in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
  • Exod 20:9-9 : 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.

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  • Exod 23:10-12
    3 verses
    85%

    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.

    12 "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.

  • Exod 20:8-11
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    84%

    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.

  • Lev 23:3
    84%

    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.

  • Deut 5:12-14
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    83%

    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.

  • Exod 34:22
    82%

    22 "You shall observe the feast of weeks with the first fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of harvest at the year's end.

  • Lev 25:2-6
    5 verses
    81%

    2 "Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, 'When you come into the land which I give you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to Yahweh.

    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.

  • Exod 35:2
    81%

    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 31:14-17
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    80%

    14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

    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.

    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.'"

  • Deut 16:8-9
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    80%

    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].

    9 You shall count for yourselves seven weeks: from the time you begin to put the sickle to the standing grain you shall begin to number seven weeks.

  • Num 28:25-26
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    25 On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work.

    26 "'Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to Yahweh in your [feast of] weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no servile work;

  • Exod 16:29-30
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    77%

    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 16:26
    77%

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

  • Gen 2:2-3
    2 verses
    76%

    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.

  • Exod 23:16
    76%

    16 And the feast of harvest, the first fruits of your labors, which you sow in the field: and the feast of harvest, at the end of the year, when you gather in your labors out of the field.

  • Lev 23:31-32
    2 verses
    76%

    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."

  • Heb 4:4
    75%

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

  • Exod 12:16
    75%

    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.

  • Lev 23:7-8
    2 verses
    75%

    7 In the first day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.

    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.'"

  • Lev 23:21
    75%

    21 You shall make proclamation on the same day: there shall be a holy convocation to you; you shall do no regular work. This is a statute forever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

  • Num 29:35
    75%

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

  • Num 28:18
    74%

    18 In the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no servile work;

  • Lev 25:20
    74%

    20 If you said, "What shall we eat the seventh year? Behold, we shall not sow, nor gather in our increase;"

  • Deut 16:15
    74%

    15 You shall keep a feast to Yahweh your God seven days in the place which Yahweh shall choose; because Yahweh your God will bless you in all your increase, and in all the work of your hands, and you shall be altogether joyful.

  • Lev 23:35
    74%

    35 On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.

  • Lev 26:35
    74%

    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.

  • Lev 23:39
    74%

    39 "'So on the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the fruits of the land, you shall keep the feast of Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a solemn rest, and on the eighth day shall be a solemn rest.

  • Jer 17:22
    73%

    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.

  • Exod 22:30
    73%

    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.