Exodus 23:12 “For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must…”

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

“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 servant, and the alien may be refreshed.

American Standard Version

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

Sixe dayes thou shalt do thy worke, and in the seuenth day thou shalt rest, that thine oxe, and thine asse may rest, and the sonne of thy maide and the stranger may be refreshed.

Darby Translation

— Six days thou shalt do thy work, but 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.

Young's Literal Translation

'Six days thou dost do thy work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest, so that thine ox and thine ass doth rest, and the son of thine handmaid and the sojourner is refreshed;

Bible in Basic English

For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.

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Cross references

“Six days”

Luke 13:14 Exodus 20:8–11 Exodus 31:15 Exodus 31:16

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 20:8–11 · BSB

Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

Exodus 31:15 · BSB

For 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 31:16 · BSB

The Israelites must keep the Sabbath, celebrating it as a permanent covenant for the generations to come.

“and the son”

Deuteronomy 5:13–15 Isaiah 58:3

Deuteronomy 5:13–15 · BSB

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

Isaiah 58:3 · BSB

“Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers.

Also

Exodus 35:3 Exodus 34:21

Exodus 35:3 · BSB

Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”

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.

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

In context

11but in the seventh year you must let it rest and lie fallow, so that the poor among your people may eat from the field and the wild animals may consume what they leave. Do the same with your vineyard and olive grove.

13Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.

Read Exodus 23