Exodus 23:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“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.

Cross References

Nehemiah 13:16

Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of merchandise and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah in Jerusalem.

Exodus 16:23

he said to them, “This is what the Lord has commanded: Tomorrow is a day of solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord; bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil, and all that is left over put aside to be kept until morning.”

Exodus 23:11

but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave the wild animals may eat. You shall do the same with your vineyard and with your olive orchard.

Exodus 34:21

“Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in plowing time and in harvest time you shall rest.

Exodus 35:2

“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.

Exodus 35:3

You shall kindle no fire in all your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”

Isaiah 58:3

“Why do we fast, but you do not see? Why humble ourselves, but you do not notice?” Look, you serve your own interest on your fast day and oppress all your workers.

Leviticus 23:3

“Six days shall work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no work: it is a Sabbath to the Lord throughout your settlements.

Mark 2:27

Then he said to them, “The Sabbath was made for humankind and not humankind for the Sabbath,

Luke 13:14

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.”