Exodus 34:21
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21 “Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in plowing time and in harvest time you shall rest.(A)
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Exodus 23:12
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12 “Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest so that your ox and your donkey may have relief and your homeborn slave and the resident alien may be refreshed.(A)
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Luke 13:14
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14 But the leader of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had cured on the Sabbath, kept saying to the crowd, “There are six days on which work ought to be done; come on those days and be cured and not on the Sabbath day.”(A)
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1 Samuel 8:12
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12 and he will appoint for himself commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties and some to plow his ground and to reap his harvest and to make his implements of war and the equipment of his chariots.(A)
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Deuteronomy 21:4
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4 the elders of that town shall bring the heifer down to a wadi with running water, which is neither plowed nor sown, and shall break the heifer’s neck there in the wadi.
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Exodus 35:2
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2 “Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy Sabbath of solemn rest to the Lord; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.(A)
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Luke 23:56
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56 Then they returned and prepared spices and ointments.
On the Sabbath they rested according to the commandment.(A)
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Isaiah 30:24
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24 and the oxen and donkeys that till the ground will eat silage that has been winnowed with shovel and fork.
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Deuteronomy 5:12-15
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12 “ ‘Observe the Sabbath day and keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. 13 Six days you shall labor and do all your work. 14 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, or your son or your daughter, or your male or female slave, or your ox or your donkey, or any of your livestock, or the resident alien in your towns, so that your male and female slave may rest as well as you.(A) 15 Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.(B)
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Exodus 20:9-11
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9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work.(A) 10 But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. 11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and consecrated it.(B)
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Genesis 45:6
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6 For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are five more years in which there will be neither plowing nor harvest.
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