Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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 a donkey thou shall redeem with a lamb, and if thou will not redeem it, then thou shall break its neck. All the first-born of thy sons thou shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty. 21 Six days thou shall work, but on the seventh day thou shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest thou shall rest. 22 And thou shall observe the feast of weeks, [even] of the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year's end.
Cross References
Exodus 23:12
Six days thou shall do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shall rest, that thine ox and thy donkey may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed.
Exodus 35:2
Six days work shall be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a Sabbath of solemn rest to LORD. Whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.
Deuteronomy 21:4
and the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer to a valley with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer's neck there in the valley.
Luke 13:14
And having responded, the synagogue-ruler, being indignant because Jesus healed on the Sabbath, answered and said to the multitude, There are six days in which he ought to work. Therefore coming in these, be healed, and not on the
Genesis 45:6
For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.
Exodus 20:9-11
Six days thou shall labor, and do all thy work,
Deuteronomy 5:12-15
Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as LORD thy God commanded thee.
1 Samuel 8:12
And he will appoint them to him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties. And [he will set some] to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.
Isaiah 30:24
Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.
Luke 23:56
And having returned, they prepared spices and ointments. And they indeed rested on the Sabbath according to the commandment.