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 · 2000Six 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 · 1611Six 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 · 1901Six 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 · 1949Six 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) · 1752Six 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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