Exodus 34:21
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21 (A)“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
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Exodus 23:12
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12 (A)Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed.
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Luke 13:14
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14 But the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because Jesus had (A)healed on the Sabbath; and he said to the crowd, (B)“There are six days on which men ought to work; therefore come and be healed on them, and (C)not on the Sabbath day.”
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1 Samuel 8:12
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12 He will (A)appoint captains over his thousands and captains over his fifties, will set some to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and some to make his weapons of war and equipment for his chariots.
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Deuteronomy 21:4
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4 The elders of that city shall bring the heifer down to a valley with flowing water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and they shall break the heifer’s neck there in the valley.
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Exodus 35:2
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2 Work shall be done for (A)six days, but the seventh day shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of rest to the Lord. Whoever does any work on it shall be put to (B)death.
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Luke 23:56
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56 Then they returned and (A)prepared spices and fragrant oils. And they rested on the Sabbath (B)according to the commandment.
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Isaiah 30:24
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24 Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that work the ground
Will eat cured fodder,
Which has been winnowed with the shovel and fan.
Deuteronomy 5:12-15
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12 (A)‘Observe the Sabbath day, to [a]keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. 13 (B)Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 14 but the seventh day is the (C)Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your ox, nor your donkey, nor any of your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates, that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15 (D)And remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there (E)by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 5:12 sanctify it
Exodus 20:9-11
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9 (A)Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the (B)seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, (C)nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11 For (D)in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
Genesis 45:6
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6 For these two years the (A)famine has been in the land, and there are still five years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvesting.
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