KJV King James Version
Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day [is] the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work [therein]: it [is] the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
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Leviticus 23:3
Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day [is] the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work [therein]: it [is] the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.
WEB World English Bible
“‘Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
ASV American Standard Version
Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of work: it is a sabbath unto Jehovah in all your dwellings.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
six days is work done, and in the seventh day is a sabbath of rest, a holy convocation; ye do no work; it is a sabbath to Jehovah in all your dwellings.
Surrounding context — Leviticus 23
1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, [Concerning] the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim [to be] holy convocations, [even] these [are] my feasts.
3 Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day [is] the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work [therein]: it [is] the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
4 These [are] the feasts of the LORD, [even] holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
5 In the fourteenth [day] of the first month at even [is] the LORD’S passover.
6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month [is] the feast of unleavened bread unto the LORD: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.
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שֵׁ֣שֶׁתH8337 · sheshsixיָמִים֮H3117 · yomdayתֵּעָשֶׂ֣הH6213 · a.sahto make: doמְלָאכָה֒H4399 · me.la.khahworkוּבַיּ֣וֹםH3117 · yomdayהַשְּׁבִיעִ֗יH7637 · she.vi.iseventhשַׁבַּ֤תH7676 · shab.batSabbathשַׁבָּתוֹן֙H7677 · shab.ba.tonsabbath observanceמִקְרָא־H4744 · miq.raassemblyקֹ֔דֶשׁH6944 · qo.deshholinessכָּל־H3605 · kolallמְלָאכָ֖הH4399 · me.la.khahworkלֹ֣אH3808 · lonotתַעֲשׂ֑וּH6213 · a.sahto make: doשַׁבָּ֥תH7676 · shab.batSabbathהִוא֙H1931 · huhe/she/itלַֽיהוָ֔הH3068 · ye.ho.vahLORDבְּכֹ֖לH3605 · kolallמֽוֹשְׁבֹתֵיכֶֽם׃ פH4186 · mo.shavseat
Cross-references
Leviticus 19:3Ye shall fear every man his mother, and his father, and keep my sabbaths: I [am] the LORD your God.Exodus 35:2-3Six 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.Exodus 23:12Six 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 13:14And 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.Exodus 31:13-17Speak 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.Exodus 20:8-11Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.Exodus 34:21Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.Isaiah 56:2Blessed [is] the man [that] doeth this, and the son of man [that] layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.Deuteronomy 5:13-14Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:Luke 23:56And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.Exodus 16:29See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.Revelation 1:10I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,Isaiah 58:13If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, [from] doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking [thine own] words:Isaiah 56:6Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name of the LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;Acts 15:21For Moses of old time hath in every city them that preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath day.Exodus 16:23And he said unto them, This [is that] which the LORD hath said, To morrow [is] the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake [that] which ye will bake [to day], and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
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