Exodus 34:21

What does Exodus 34:21 mean?

A plain-English look at Exodus 34:21 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

`Six days thou dost work, and on the seventh day thou dost rest; in ploughing-time and in harvest thou dost rest.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Six days shalt thou work, the seventh day thou shalt cease to plough and to reap.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

— Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest; in ploughing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

Context

v.20And the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break its neck. All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.

v.21This passage

v.22And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks, even of the first-fruits of wheat harvest, and the feast of ingathering at the year’s end.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Exodus 35:2

    Six days shall work be done; but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of solemn rest to Jehovah: whosoever doeth any work therein shall be put to death.

  • Isaiah 30:24

    the oxen likewise and the young asses that till the ground shall eat savory provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.

  • Deuteronomy 5:12

    Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee.

  • Exodus 20:9

    Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;

  • Genesis 45:6

    For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and there are yet five years, in which there shall be neither plowing nor harvest.

  • Exodus 23:12

    Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed.

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