Exodus 34:21
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Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.
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For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.
For six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on that day must be put to death.
He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, to make his weapons of war, and to equip his chariots.
But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath.”
bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.
Then they returned to prepare spices and perfumes. And they rested on the Sabbath, according to the commandment.
The oxen and donkeys that work the ground will eat salted fodder, winnowed with shovel and pitchfork.
For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.