Exodus Chapter 20 verse 9 Holy Bible
Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;
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On six days do all your work:
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Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;
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Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
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Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
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You shall labor six days, and do all your work,
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six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work,
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Exodus 20 : 9 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - Six days shalt thou labour. This is not so much a command as a prohibition" Thou shaft not labor more than six (consecutive) clays." In them thou shelf do all thy necessary work, so as to have the Sabbath free for the worship and service of God.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9) Six days shalt thou labour.--The form is certainly imperative; and it has been held that the fourth commandment is "not limited to a mere enactment respecting one day, but prescribes the due distribution of a week, and enforces the six days' work as much as the seventh day's rest" (Garden in Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, vol. iii., p. 1068). But the work on the six days is really rather assumed as what will be than required as what must be; and the intention of the clause is prohibitory rather than mandatory--"thou shalt not work more than six days out of the seven."