Exodus 23:12

Gereviseerde Lutherse Vertaling

Zes dagen zult gij uwen arbeid doen, maar op den zevenden dag zult gij rusten, opdat uw os en ezel rusten, en de zoon uwer dienstmaagd en de vreemdeling zich verkwikken.

Parallel Translations

Gereviseerde Leidse Vertaling
Zes dagen zult gij uw werk verrichten en op den zevenden zult gij rusten; opdat uw rund en uw ezel uitrusten en de zoon uwer slavin en de vreemde adem scheppen.

Staten Vertaling
Zes dagen zult gij uw werken doen; maar op den zevenden dag zult gij rusten; opdat uw os en uw ezel ruste, en dat de zoon uwer dienstmaagd en de vreemdeling adem scheppe.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Six days: Exodus 20:8-11, Exodus 31:15, Exodus 31:16, Luke 13:14

and the son: Deuteronomy 5:13-15, Isaiah 58:3

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:2 - And on Genesis 2:3 - blessed Exodus 20:9 - General Exodus 34:21 - Six Exodus 35:2 - Six days Leviticus 23:3 - General Deuteronomy 5:14 - thy manservant Nehemiah 13:16 - men of Tyre Jeremiah 17:22 - neither do Matthew 12:2 - Behold Mark 2:27 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Six days thou shalt do thy work,.... That is, they might do what work they would on the six days of the week:

and on the seventh day thou shall rest; from all the work and labour done on other days, and give up themselves to religious exercises:

that thine ox and thine ass may rest; and so every other beast, as horses, camels, c.

and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed the former, the Targum of Jonathan, and so Jarchi, interprets, of one uncircumcised, and the latter, of a proselyte of the gate: this law is here repeated, partly to show that it is of the same kind with the former, namely, ceremonial and temporary; and partly, as Jarchi observes, lest it should be said, since all, the year is called the sabbath, there was no need to observe the weekly sabbath.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This is the first mention of the Sabbatical year; the law for it is given at length in Leviticus 25:2. Both the Sabbatical year and the weekly Sabbath are here spoken of exclusively in their relation to the poor, as bearing testimony to the equality of the people in their covenant with Yahweh. In the first of these institutions, the proprietor of the soil gave up his rights for the year to the whole community of living creatures, not excepting the beasts: in the latter, the master gave up his claim for the day to the services of his servants and cattle.

Exodus 23:12

May be refreshed - Literally, “may take breath.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 23:12. Six days thou shalt do thy work — Though they were thus bound to keep the sabbatical year, yet they must not neglect the seventh day's rest or weekly Sabbath; for that was of perpetual obligation, and was paramount to all others. That the sanctification of the Sabbath was of great consequence in the sight of God, we may learn from the various repetitions of this law; and we may observe that it has still for its object, not only the benefit of the soul, but the health and comfort of the body also. Doth God care for oxen? Yes; and he mentions them with tenderness, that thine ox and thine ass may rest. How criminal to employ the labouring cattle on the Sabbath, as well as upon the other days of the week! More cattle are destroyed in England than in any other part of the world, in proportion, by excessive and continued labour. The noble horse in general has no Sabbath! Does God look on this with an indifferent eye? Surely he does not. "England," said a foreigner, "is the paradise of women, the purgatory of servants, and the hell of horses.

The son of thy handmaid, and the stranger - be refreshed. — ינפש yinnaphesh may be respirited or new-souled; have a complete renewal both of bodily and spiritual strength. The expression used by Moses here is very like that used by St. Paul, Acts 3:19: "Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing (καιροι αναψυξεως, the times of re-souling) shall come from the presence of the Lord;" alluding, probably, to those times of refreshing and rest for body and soul originally instituted under the law.