Parallel Verses
Youngs Literal Translation
'Six days thou dost work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest; in ploughing-time and in harvest thou dost rest.
New American Standard Bible
“You shall work
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.
Holman Bible
“You are to labor six days but you must rest
International Standard Version
"For six days you are to work, but on the seventh day you are to rest; even during plowing time and harvest you are to rest.
A Conservative Version
Six days thou shall work, but on the seventh day thou shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest thou 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.
Amplified
“You shall work for six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; [even] in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest [on the Sabbath].
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.
Darby Translation
Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in ploughing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
Julia Smith Translation
Six days thou shalt work, and in the seventh day thou shalt cease: and in ploughing and in harvest thou shalt cease.
King James 2000
Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Six days you will work, and on the seventh day you will rest; in the [time of] plowing and in the [time of] harvest you will rest.
Modern King James verseion
You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
"Six days thou shalt work, and the seventh thou shalt rest: both from earing and reaping.
NET Bible
"On six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; even at the time of plowing and of harvest you are to rest.
New Heart English Bible
"Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest: in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
The Emphasized Bible
Six days, shalt thou labour, but on the seventh day, shalt thou rest, - in plowing time and in harvest, shalt thou rest.
Webster
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in time of plowing 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.
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References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Exodus 34:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Covenant Stipulations
20 and the firstling of an ass thou dost ransom with a lamb; and if thou dost not ransom, then thou hast beheaded it; every first-born of thy sons thou dost ransom, and they do not appear before Me empty. 21 'Six days thou dost work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest; in ploughing-time and in harvest thou dost rest. 22 'And a feast of weeks thou dost observe for thyself; first-fruits of wheat-harvest; and the feast of in-gathering, at the revolution of the year.
Cross References
Exodus 23:12
'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;
Exodus 35:2
Six days is work done, and on the seventh day there is to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to Jehovah; any who doeth work in it is put to death;
Deuteronomy 21:4
and the elders of that city have brought down the heifer unto a hard valley, which is not tilled nor sown, and have beheaded there the heifer in the valley.
Luke 13:14
And the chief of the synagogue answering -- much displeased that on the sabbath Jesus healed -- said to the multitude, 'Six days there are in which it behoveth us to be working; in these, then, coming, be healed, and not on the sabbath-day.'
Genesis 45:6
Because these two years the famine is in the heart of the land, and yet are five years, in which there is neither ploughing nor harvest;
Exodus 20:9-11
six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work,
Deuteronomy 5:12-15
Observe the day of the sabbath -- to sanctify it, as Jehovah thy God hath commanded thee;
1 Samuel 8:12
also to appoint for himself heads of thousands, and heads of fifties; also to plow his plowing, and to reap his reaping; and to make instruments of his war, and instruments of his charioteer.
Isaiah 30:24
And the oxen and the young asses serving the ground, Fermented provender do eat, That one is winnowing with shovel and fan.
Luke 23:56
and having turned back, they made ready spices and ointments, and on the sabbath, indeed, they rested, according to the command.