Exodus 20:10

but, the seventh day, is a sabbath unto Yahweh thy God,—thou shalt do no work, thou nor thy son nor thy daughter nor thy servant, nor thy handmaid, nor thy beast, nor thy sojourner who is within thy gates,

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

In Context

9Six days, shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;

11For, in six days, did Yahweh make the heavens and the earth, [and] the sea—and all that in them is, and rested on the seventh day,—for this cause, Yahweh blessed the sabbath day and hallowed it.

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Cross References

Exodus 16:27And it came to pass on the seventh day, that there went forth some of the people to gather,—but they found not.

Exodus 23:12Six days, shalt thou do thy work, but on the seventh day, shalt thou keep sabbath,—that thine ox may rest and thine ass, and that the son of thy handmaid and the sojourner may be refreshed.

Exodus 34:21Six days, shalt thou labour, but on the seventh day, shalt thou rest,—in plowing time and in harvest, shalt thou rest.

Deuteronomy 5:14but, the seventh day, is a sabbath unto Yahweh thy God,—thou shalt do no work—thou nor thy son nor thy daughter nor thy servant nor thy handmaid nor thine ox nor thine ass nor any of thy cattle, nor thy sojourner who is within thy gates, that thy servant and thy handmaid may rest, as well as thou.

Deuteronomy 24:14Thou shalt not oppress a hired servant that is poor and needy,—of thy brethren or of thy sojourners that are in thy land, within thy gates;

Nehemiah 13:15In those days, saw I in Judah—some treading winepresses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves and lading asses, moreover also wine, grapes, and figs, and every kind of burden, which they were bringing into Jerusalem on the sabbath day,—so I protested against it, as a day for them to sell provisions.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 20:2-12

The Ten Commandments. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And God spake all these words, saying, 2 I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3 Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the… Read the whole commentary →

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