Exodus 34:21 “Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even…”

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

Six dayes shalt thou worke, and in the seuenth day thou shalt rest: both in earing time, and in the haruest thou shalt rest.

Darby Translation

— Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in ploughing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

Young's Literal Translation

'Six days thou dost work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest; in ploughing-time and in harvest thou dost rest.

Bible in Basic English

Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.

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Cross references

“Six”

Exodus 23:12 Exodus 35:2 Luke 13:14 Deuteronomy 5:12–15 Luke 23:56 Exodus 20:9–11

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.

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.

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.”

Deuteronomy 5:12–15 · BSB

Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

Luke 23:56 · BSB

Then they returned to prepare spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.

Exodus 20:9–11 · BSB

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

“earing”

Deuteronomy 21:4 1 Samuel 8:12 Isaiah 30:24 Genesis 45:6

Deuteronomy 21:4 · BSB

bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.

1 Samuel 8:12 · BSB

He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, and to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.

Isaiah 30:24 · BSB

The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.

Genesis 45:6 · BSB

For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.

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

In context

20You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a lamb; but if you do not redeem it, you are to break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one shall appear before Me empty-handed.

22And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.

Read Exodus 34