◄ Exodus 20:9 ►
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Good News Translation
You have six days in which to do your work,

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.

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

Luke 13:14 And the ruler of the synagogue being angry that Jesus had healed on the sabbath answering, said to the multitude: Six days there are wherein you ought to work. In them therefore come and be healed: and not on the sabbath day.

Context
The Ten Commandments
…8Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day. 9Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.10But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that is within thy gates.…
Cross References
Luke 13:14
And the ruler of the synagogue being angry that Jesus had healed on the sabbath answering, said to the multitude: Six days there are wherein you ought to work. In them therefore come and be healed: and not on the sabbath day.

Exodus 16:26
Gather it six days; but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord, therefore it shall not be found.

Exodus 31:15
Six days shall you do work: in the seventh day is the sabbath, the rest holy to the Lord. Every one that shall do any work on this day, shall die.

Exodus 34:21
Six days shalt thou work, the seventh day thou shalt cease to plough and to reap.

Exodus 35:2
Six days you shall do work; the seventh day shall be holy unto you, the sabbath and the rest of the Lord: he that shall do any work on it, shall be put to death.

Exodus 35:3
You shall kindle no fire in any of your habitations on the sabbath day.

Leviticus 23:3
Six days shall ye do work: the seventh day, because it is the rest of the sabbath, shall be called holy. You shall do no work on that day: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your habitations.

Deuteronomy 5:13
Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.

Ezekiel 46:1
Thus saith the Lord God: The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east, shall be shut the six days, on which work is done; but on the sabbath day it shall be opened, yea and on the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

Exodus 20:8
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