Parallel Verses

Holman Bible

“You are to labor six days but you must rest on the seventh day; you must even rest during plowing and harvesting times.

New American Standard Bible

“You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest.

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.

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.

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.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Six
שׁשּׁה שׁשׁ 
Shesh 
Usage: 215

יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

thou shalt work
עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

but on the seventh
שׁבעי שׁביעי 
Sh@biy`iy 
Usage: 98

day
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

thou shalt rest
שׁבת 
Shabath 
Usage: 71

חרישׁ 
Chariysh 
Usage: 3

and in harvest
קציר 
Qatsiyr 
Usage: 54

References

Context Readings

Covenant Stipulations

20 You must redeem the firstborn of a donkey with a sheep, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons. No one is to appear before Me empty-handed. 21 “You are to labor six days but you must rest on the seventh day; you must even rest during plowing and harvesting times. 22 “Observe the Festival of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Festival of Ingathering at the turn of the agricultural year.


Cross References

Exodus 23:12

“Do your work for six days but rest on the seventh day so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave as well as the foreign resident may be refreshed.

Exodus 35:2

For six days work is to be done, but on the seventh day you are to have a holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the Lord. Anyone who does work on it must be executed.

Deuteronomy 21:4

The elders of that city will bring the cow down to a continually flowing stream, to a place not tilled or sown, and they will break its neck there by the stream.

Luke 13:14

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, responded by telling the crowd, “There are six days when work should be done; therefore come on those days and be healed and not on the Sabbath day.”

Genesis 45:6

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

Exodus 20:9-11

You are to labor six days and do all your work,

Deuteronomy 5:12-15

Be careful to remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy as the Lord your God has commanded you.

1 Samuel 8:12

He can appoint them for his use as commanders of thousands or commanders of fifties, to plow his ground or reap his harvest, or to make his weapons of war or the equipment for his chariots.

Isaiah 30:24

The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder scattered with winnowing shovel and fork.

Luke 23:56

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

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