Exodus 23:12

New American Bible - revised edition

For six days you may do your work, but on the seventh day you must rest, that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and that the son of your maidservant and the resident alien may be refreshed.

Cross References

Nehemiah 13:16

In Jerusalem itself the Tyrians residing there were importing fish and every other kind of merchandise and selling it to the Judahites on the sabbath.

Exodus 16:23

he told them, “That is what the Lord has prescribed. Tomorrow is a day of rest, a holy sabbath of the Lord. Whatever you want to bake, bake; whatever you want to boil, boil; but whatever is left put away and keep until the morning.”

Exodus 23:11

But the seventh year you shall let the land lie untilled and fallow, that the poor of your people may eat of it and their leftovers the wild animals may eat. So also shall you do in regard to your vineyard and your olive grove.

Exodus 34:21

Six days you may labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the seasons of plowing and harvesting you must rest.

Exodus 35:2

On six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be holy to you as the sabbath of complete rest to the Lord. Anyone who does work on that day shall be put to death.

Exodus 35:3

You shall not even light a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath day.” Collection of Materials.

Isaiah 58:3

“Why do we fast, but you do not see it? afflict ourselves, but you take no note?” See, on your fast day you carry out your own pursuits, and drive all your laborers.

Leviticus 23:3

For six days work may be done; but the seventh day is a sabbath of complete rest, a declared holy day; you shall do no work. It is the Lord’s sabbath wherever you dwell. Passover.

Mark 2:27

Then he said to them, “The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.

Luke 13:14

But the leader of the synagogue, indignant that Jesus had cured on the sabbath, said to the crowd in reply, “There are six days when work should be done. Come on those days to be cured, not on the sabbath day.”