Exodus 20:9 “Six days you shall labor and do all your work,”

Exodus 20:9

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;

Geneva Bible 1599

Sixe dayes shalt thou labour, and doe all thy worke,

Darby Translation

Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;

Young's Literal Translation

six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work,

Bible in Basic English

On six days do all your work:

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Cross references

“Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:”

Luke 13:14 Exodus 23:12

Luke 13:14 · BSB

But 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 23:12 · BSB

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.

Also

Exodus 34:21 Leviticus 23:3 Exodus 35:2

Exodus 34:21 · BSB

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

Leviticus 23:3 · BSB

For 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 35:2 · BSB

For 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.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

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.

Read Exodus 20