Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 But the first offspring of a donkey you will redeem with small livestock, and if you will not redeem [it], you will break its neck. Every firstborn of your sons you will redeem, and you will not appear before me empty-handed. 21 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. 22 And {you yourself} will observe the Feast of Weeks--the firstfruits of the wheat harvest--and the Feast of Harvest Gathering at the turn of the year.
Cross References
Exodus 23:12
" 'Six days you will do your work, but on the seventh day you will stop so that your ox and your donkey will rest and the son of your slave woman and the alien will be refreshed.
Exodus 35:2
[On] six days work can be done, and on the seventh there will be for you a holy [day], a {Sabbath of complete rest}, for Yahweh; anyone doing work on it will be put to death.
Deuteronomy 21:4
and the elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a {wadi that flows with water all year} and [that] has not been plowed and has not been sown; [then] {there they shall break the neck of the heifer in the wadi}.
Luke 13:14
But the ruler of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, answered [and] said to the crowd, "There are six days on which it is necessary to work. Therefore come [and] be healed on them, and not on the day of the Sabbath!"
Genesis 45:6
For these two years the famine [has been] in the midst of the land, but [there will be] five more years where there is no plowing or harvest.
Exodus 20:9-11
Six days you will work, and you will do all your work.
Deuteronomy 5:12-15
'Observe the {Sabbath day} to make it holy, [just] as Yahweh your God has commanded you.
1 Samuel 8:12
He will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and [those] {to do his plowing} and to reap his harvest, and [those] to make weapons of war and the equipment for his chariots.
Isaiah 30:24
and the oxen and the donkeys that till the ground will eat fodder, sorrel that [has] been winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
Luke 23:56
And they returned [and] prepared fragrant spices and perfumes, and on the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.