King James Version
Exodus 20:9 in the King James Version says “Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 20 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:”
Exodus 20:9 · KJV
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
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:
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“Six”
H8337six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand); as ordinal, sixth
“days”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“shalt thou labour”
H5647to work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“all thy work”
H4399properly, deputyship, i.e., ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstractly or concretely); also property (as the result of labor)
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