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Exodus 31:15

Six days shall you do work: in the seventh day is the sabbath, the rest holy to the Lord. Every one that shall do any work on this day, shall die.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Six days may work be done; but in the seventh is the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

In Context

14Keep you my sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that shall profane it, shall be put to death: he that shall do my work in it, his soul shall perish out of the midst of his people.

16Let the children of Israel keep the sabbath, and celebrate it in their generations. It is an everlasting covenant

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Cross References

Genesis 2:2And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made: and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had done.

Exodus 16:26Gather it six days: but on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord, therefore it shall not be found.

Exodus 31:14Keep you my sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that shall profane it, shall be put to death: he that shall do my work in it, his soul shall perish out of the midst of his people.

Exodus 34:21Six days shalt thou work, the seventh day thou shalt cease to plough, and to reap.

Leviticus 23:3Six days shall ye do work: the seventh day, because it is the rest of the sabbath, shall be called holy. You shall do no work on that day: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your habitations.

Numbers 15:32And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and had found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day,

Matthew Henry on Exodus 31:13-18

The Observance of the Sabbath. ( b. c. 1491.) 12 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, 13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the Lord that doth sanctify you. 14 Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 15 Six… Read the whole commentary →

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