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Exodus 34:21

Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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9 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
שֵׁ֤שֶׁתShe.shetsixH8337 →
יָמִים֙ya.MimdaysH3117 →
תַּעֲבֹ֔דta.'a.Vodyou will laborH5647 →
וּבַיּ֥וֹםu.vai.Yomand on the dayH3117 →
הַשְּׁבִיעִ֖יha.she.vi.'I<the> seventhH7637 →
תִּשְׁבֹּ֑תtish.Botyou will restH7673 →
בֶּחָרִ֥ישׁbe.cha.Rishat <the> plowing timeH2758 →
וּבַקָּצִ֖ירu.va.ka.Tzirand at <the> harvest timeH7105 →
תִּשְׁבֹּֽת׃tish.Botyou will restH7673 →

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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.Exodus 20:10but 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 or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.Genesis 8:22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”Exodus 23:12For 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.Exodus 31:15For 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 20:9Six days you shall labor and do all your work,Nehemiah 13:15In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.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.1 Samuel 8:12He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, to make his weapons of war, and to equip his chariots.Deuteronomy 21:4bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.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.Luke 23:56Then they returned to prepare spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.Deuteronomy 5:12–15Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.Isaiah 30:24The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.Genesis 45:6For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.Exodus 20:9–11Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

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Moses Comes Down from Mount Sinai — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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