Deuteronomy 5:13
Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
Deuteronomy 5:13 in other translations
| BSB | Six days you shall labor and do all your work, |
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| WEB | You shall labor six days, and do all your work; |
| ASV | Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; |
| YLT | six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work, |
| DARBY | Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; |
| BBE | On six days do all your work: |
| Webster | Six days thou shalt labor, and do all thy work: |
What does Deuteronomy 5:13 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Deuteronomy 5:6-20
6-20. I am the Lord thy God--The word "Lord" is expressive of authority or dominion; and God, who by natural claim as well as by covenant relation was entitled to exercise supremacy over His people Israel, had a sovereign right to establish laws for their government. [See on Ex 20:2.] The commandments which follow are, with a few slight verbal alterations, the same as formerly recorded (Ex 20:1-17), and in some of…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Deuteronomy 5:6-22
There is some variation here from Ex 20 as between the Lord's prayer in Mt 6 and Lu 11. It is more necessary that we tie ourselves to the things, than to the words unalterably. The original reason for hallowing the sabbath, taken from God's resting from the work of creation on the seventh day, is not here mentioned. Though this ever remains in force, it is not the only reason. Here it is taken from Israel's…
Deuteronomy 5:13 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Deuteronomy 5:13
- Ezekiel 20:12
Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord that sanctify them.
- Luke 13:14-16
And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day. The Lord then answered him, and said, Thou hypocrite, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering? And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?
- Exodus 35:2-3
Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord: whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death. Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
- 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 rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
- Luke 23:56
And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
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Context
- Deuteronomy 5:12
Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.
- Deuteronomy 5:13
Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:
- Deuteronomy 5:14
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, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Deuteronomy 5:13 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Seis días trabajarás y harás toda tu obra: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Six jours tu travailleras et tu feras toute ton œuvre; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Sechs Tage sollst du arbeiten und all dein Werk tun; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Sex diebus operaberis, et facies omnia opera tua. |