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King James Version

Deuteronomy 5:13

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agriculture;   Commandments;   Decalogue;   Industry;   Law;   Obedience;   Sabbath;   Sanitation;   Seven;   Table;   Scofield Reference Index - Law of Moses;   The Topic Concordance - Commandment;   Sabbath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Masters;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Day;   Ethics;   Evil;   Freedom;   Law;   Sabbath;   Ten Commandments;   Work;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Moses;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Law;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Baptism of Fire;   Ethics;   Festivals;   Law, Ten Commandments, Torah;   Pentateuch;   Sabbath;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Deuteronomy;   Law;   Sabbath;   Ten Commandments;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Numbers (2);   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Sabbath;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Encampment at Sinai;   Events of the Encampment;   Proclamation of the Law;   Peculiarities of the Law of Moses;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Sabbath;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Decalogue;   Mishnah;   War;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Six days shall you labor, and do all your work;
Lexham English Bible
Six days you shall work, and you shall do all of your work,
English Standard Version
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
New Century Version
You may work and get everything done during six days each week,
New English Translation
You are to work and do all your tasks in six days,
Amplified Bible
'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,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Sixe dayes thou shalt labour, and shalt doe all thy worke:
Legacy Standard Bible
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
Contemporary English Version
You have six days when you can do your work,
Complete Jewish Bible
You have six days to labor and do all your work,
Darby Translation
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;
Easy-to-Read Version
Work six days a week and do your job,
George Lamsa Translation
Six days you shall labor, and do all your work;
Good News Translation
You have six days in which to do your work,
Christian Standard Bible®
You are to labor six days and do all your work,
Literal Translation
Six days you shall labor, and shall do all your work,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Sixe daies shalt thou laboure, and do all thy worke,
American Standard Version
Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;
Bible in Basic English
On six days do all your work:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Sixe dayes thou shalt labour, and do all that thou hast to do:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
but the seventh day is a sabbath unto the LORD thy God, in it thou shalt not do any manner of work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou.
King James Version (1611)
Sixe dayes thou shalt labour, and doe all thy worke.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Six days thou shalt work, and thou shalt do all thy works;
English Revised Version
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
Berean Standard Bible
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In sixe daies thou schalt worche, and thou schalt do alle thi werkis;
Young's Literal Translation
six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work,
Update Bible Version
Six days you shall labor, and do all your work;
Webster's Bible Translation
Six days thou shalt labor, and do all thy work:
World English Bible
Six days shall you labor, and do all your work;
New King James Version
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
New Living Translation
You have six days each week for your ordinary work,
New Life Bible
Six days you will do all your work.
New Revised Standard
Six days you shall labor and do all your work.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
six days, shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.
Revised Standard Version
Six days you shall labor, and do all your work;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

Contextual Overview

6 I am the Lord thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. 7 Thou shalt have none other gods before me. 8 Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth: 9 Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, 10 And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments. 11 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 12 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee. 13 Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: 14 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou. 15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 23:12, Exodus 35:2, Exodus 35:3, Ezekiel 20:12, Luke 13:14-16, Luke 23:56

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:26 - General Leviticus 23:3 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Exodus 20:0 and notes.

Moses here adopts the Ten Words as a ground from which he may proceed to reprove, warn, and exhort; and repeats them, with a certain measure of freedom and adaptation. Our Lord Mark 10:19 and Paul Ephesians 6:2-3 deal similarly with the same subject. Speaker and hearers recognized, however, a statutory and authoritative form of the laws in question, which, because it was familiar to both parties, needed not to be reproduced with verbal fidelity.

Deuteronomy 5:12-15

The exhortation to observe the Sabbath and allow time of rest to servants (compare Exodus 23:12) is pointed by reminding the people that they too were formerly servants themselves. The bondage in Egypt and the deliverance from it are not assigned as grounds for the institution of the Sabbath, which is of far older date (see Genesis 2:3), but rather as suggesting motives for the religious observance of that institution. The Exodus was an entrance into rest from the toils of the house of bondage, and is thought actually to have occurred on the Sabbath day or “rest” day.

Deuteronomy 5:16

The blessing of general well-being here annexed to the keeping of the fifth commandment, is no real addition to the promise, but only an amplification of its expression.

Deuteronomy 5:21

The “field” is added to the list of objects specifically forbidden in the parallel passage Exodus 20:17. The addition seems very natural in one who was speaking with the partition of Canaan among his hearers directly in view.


 
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