Exodus 34:21
New International Version
“Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.

New Living Translation
“You have six days each week for your ordinary work, but on the seventh day you must stop working, even during the seasons of plowing and harvest.

English Standard Version
“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

Berean Standard Bible
Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

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

New King James Version
“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.

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.

NASB 1995
“You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest.

NASB 1977
“You shall work six days, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during plowing time and harvest you shall rest.

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

Amplified Bible
“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].

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are to labor six days but you must rest on the seventh day; you must even rest during plowing and harvesting times.”

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.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And the firstborn of oxen you shall redeem with a lamb, and if you will not redeem it, you shall kill it, and every firstborn of your sons you shall redeem and you shall not appear before me with nothing.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: there shall be rest in seed-time and harvest.

Contemporary English Version
Work for six days and rest on the seventh day, even during the seasons for plowing and harvesting.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Six days shalt thou work, the seventh day thou shalt cease to plough, and to reap.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
"You may work six days, but on the seventh day you must not work. Even during the time of plowing or harvesting you must not work [on this day].

Good News Translation
"You have six days in which to do your work, but do not work on the seventh day, not even during plowing time or harvest.

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.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

Literal Standard Version
[For] six days you work, and on the seventh day you rest; in plowing-time and in harvest you rest.

Majority Standard Bible
Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

New American Bible
Six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the seasons of plowing and harvesting you must rest.

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 Revised Standard Version
Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in plowing time and in harvest time you shall 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.

Webster's Bible Translation
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.

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.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
The LORD Renews the Covenant
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. 21Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest. 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.…

Cross References
Exodus 20:9
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

Exodus 23:12
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 31:15
For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.

Exodus 35:2
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.

Leviticus 23:3
For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.

Deuteronomy 5:13
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

Nehemiah 13:15
In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.


Treasury of Scripture

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

six

Exodus 20:9-11
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: …

Exodus 23:12
Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.

Exodus 35:2
Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the LORD: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.

earing

Genesis 45:6
For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

Deuteronomy 21:4
And the elders of that city shall bring down the heifer unto a rough valley, which is neither eared nor sown, and shall strike off the heifer's neck there in the valley:

1 Samuel 8:12
And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots.

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Exodus 34
1. The tablets are replaced
5. The name of the Lord proclaimed
8. Moses entreats God to go with them
10. God makes a covenant with them, repeating certain duties
28. Moses after forty days on the mount, comes down with the tablets
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(21) The law of the Sabbath meets us at every turn in Exodus. It was so fundamental to the entire polity, that it naturally held a place in every section of the legislation. We have already found it (1) propounded at the giving of the manna (Exodus 16:22-30); (2) reasserted in the fourth commandment (Exodus 20:8-11); (3) introduced into the "Book of the Covenant" (Exodus 23:12); and (4) appended to the directions given for the construction of the Tabernacle (Exodus 31:13-17).

In earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.--"Earing-time" is ploughing time, "to ear" being an old English verb, etymologically connected with the Greek ??? and the Latin aro. (Comp. Genesis 45:6; Deuteronomy 21:4; 1Samuel 8:12; Isaiah 30:24.) There was a special temptation to trench on the Sabbatical rest at the times most critical in respect to agricultural operations. . . .

Verse 21. - Six days, etc. This is repeated from the "Book of the Covenant" (Exodus 23:12), but with a remarkable addition - in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. "Earing time" is "ploughing time" - to "ear" being to "plough" in Old English, a word cognate with the Greek ἄρω and the Latin are; and the command to rest both then and at harvest time is a command not to break the Sabbath rest at the seasons when it might seem most necessary so to do The temptation to "save the harvest" is readily intelligible to Englishmen. To appreciate the other temptation, we require to know the peculiar circumstances of the East. It is necessary there to complete the ploughing before the spring rains are over. These last but a short time; and when they are once past no rain can be looked for till the autumn.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Six
שֵׁ֤שֶׁת (šê·šeṯ)
Number - masculine singular construct
Strong's 8337: Six (a cardinal number)

days
יָמִים֙ (yā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 3117: A day

you shall labor,
תַּעֲבֹ֔ד (ta·‘ă·ḇōḏ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 5647: To work, to serve, till, enslave

but on the seventh
הַשְּׁבִיעִ֖י (haš·šə·ḇî·‘î)
Article | Number - ordinal masculine singular
Strong's 7637: Seventh (an ordinal number)

day
וּבַיּ֥וֹם (ū·ḇay·yō·wm)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

you shall rest;
תִּשְׁבֹּ֑ת (tiš·bōṯ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7673: To repose, desist from exertion

even in plowing
בֶּחָרִ֥ישׁ (be·ḥā·rîš)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2758: A plowing, plowing time

and harvesting seasons,
וּבַקָּצִ֖יר (ū·ḇaq·qā·ṣîr)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7105: Severed, harvest, the crop, the time, the reaper, a limb

you must rest.
תִּשְׁבֹּֽת׃ (tiš·bōṯ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 7673: To repose, desist from exertion


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