Exodus 20:9
New International Version
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

New Living Translation
You have six days each week for your ordinary work,

English Standard Version
Six days you shall labor, and do all your work,

Berean Standard Bible
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

King James Bible
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

New King James Version
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

New American Standard Bible
For six days you shall labor and do all your work,

NASB 1995
“Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

NASB 1977
“Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

Legacy Standard Bible
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

Amplified Bible
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
You are to labor six days and do all your work,

American Standard Version
Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Six days you shall serve and you shall do all your work:

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Six days thou shalt labour, and shalt perform all thy work.

Contemporary English Version
You have six days when you can do your work,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.

English Revised Version
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You have six days to do all your work.

Good News Translation
You have six days in which to do your work,

International Standard Version
Yu are to labor and do all your work during six days,

JPS Tanakh 1917
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;

Literal Standard Version
six days you labor and have done all your work,

Majority Standard Bible
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

New American Bible
Six days you may labor and do all your work,

NET Bible
For six days you may labor and do all your work,

New Revised Standard Version
Six days you shall labor and do all your work.

New Heart English Bible
Six days you may labor, and do all your work,

Webster's Bible Translation
Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:

World English Bible
You shall labor six days, and do all your work,

Young's Literal Translation
six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work,

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Audio Bible



Context
The Ten Commandments
8Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. 9Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.…

Cross References
Luke 13:14
But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. "There are six days for work," he told the crowd. "So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath."

Exodus 16:26
For six days you may gather, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, it will not be there."

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 34:21
Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

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.

Exodus 35:3
Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day."

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.


Treasury of Scripture

Six days shall you labor, and do all your 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.

Luke 13:14
And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

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(9) Six days shalt thou labour.--The form is certainly imperative; and it has been held that the fourth commandment is "not limited to a mere enactment respecting one day, but prescribes the due distribution of a week, and enforces the six days' work as much as the seventh day's rest" (Garden in Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, vol. iii., p. 1068). But the work on the six days is really rather assumed as what will be than required as what must be; and the intention of the clause is prohibitory rather than mandatory--"thou shalt not work more than six days out of the seven."

Verse 9. - Six days shalt thou labour. This is not so much a command as a prohibition" Thou shaft not labor more than six (consecutive) clays." In them thou shelf do all thy necessary work, so as to have the Sabbath free for the worship and service of God.

Parallel Commentaries ...


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

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

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

and do
וְעָשִׂ֖֣יתָ (wə·‘ā·śî·ṯā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine singular
Strong's 6213: To do, make

all
כָּל־ (kāl-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

your work,
מְלַאכְתֶּֽךָ֒‪‬ (mə·laḵ·te·ḵā)
Noun - feminine singular construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's 4399: Deputyship, ministry, employment, work, property


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