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Exodus 23:12

For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.

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ASV

Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed.

KJV

Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

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15 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
שֵׁ֤שֶׁתShe.shetsixH8337 →
יָמִים֙ya.MimdaysH3117 →
תַּעֲשֶׂ֣הta.'a.Sehyou will doH6213 →
מַעֲשֶׂ֔יךָma.'a.Sei.khawork<s> yourH4639 →
וּבַיּ֥וֹםu.vai.Yomand on the dayH3117 →
הַשְּׁבִיעִ֖יha.she.vi.'I<the> seventhH7637 →
תִּשְׁבֹּ֑תtish.Botyou will restH7673 →
לְמַ֣עַןle.Ma.'anso thatH4616 →
יָנ֗וּחַya.Nu.achit may restH5117 →
שֽׁוֹרְךָ֙shor.Khaox yourH7794 →
וַחֲמֹרֶ֔ךָva.cha.mo.Re.khaand donkey yourH2543 →
וְיִנָּפֵ֥שׁve.yi.na.Feshso he may refresh himselfH5314 →
בֶּן־ben-[the] child ofH1121 →
אֲמָתְךָ֖'a.ma.te.Khafemale slave yourH519 →
וְהַגֵּֽר׃ve.ha.Gerand the sojournerH1616 →

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Exodus 20:8Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.Genesis 2:3Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.Genesis 2:2And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.Mark 2:27Then Jesus declared, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.Leviticus 23:3For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.Exodus 20:9Six days you shall labor and do all your work,Luke 13:14But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath.”Exodus 35:2For six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on that day must be put to death.Exodus 35:3Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”Exodus 31:15–16For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.Exodus 34:21Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.Exodus 20:8–11Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.Deuteronomy 5:14but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do.Jeremiah 17:22You must not carry a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day, but you must keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your forefathers.Exodus 16:23He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.’”Deuteronomy 5:13–15Six days you shall labor and do all your work,Nehemiah 13:16Additionally, men of Tyre who lived there were importing fish and all kinds of merchandise and selling them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah in Jerusalem.Matthew 12:2When the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, “Look, Your disciples are doing what is unlawful on the Sabbath.”

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