Deuteronomy 5:13

Easy-to-Read Version

Work six days a week and do your job,

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Six days shall you labor, and do all your work;

King James Version
Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work:

Lexham English Bible
Six days you shall work, and you shall do all of your work,

English Standard Version
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

New Century Version
You may work and get everything done during six days each week,

New English Translation
You are to work and do all your tasks in six days,

Amplified Bible
'Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

New American Standard Bible
'For six days you shall labor and do all your work,

Geneva Bible (1587)
Sixe dayes thou shalt labour, and shalt doe all thy worke:

Legacy Standard Bible
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

Contemporary English Version
You have six days when you can do your work,

Complete Jewish Bible
You have six days to labor and do all your work,

Darby Translation
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;

George Lamsa Translation
Six days you shall labor, and do all your work;

Good News Translation
You have six days in which to do your work,

Christian Standard Bible®
You are to labor six days and do all your work,

Literal Translation
Six days you shall labor, and shall do all your work,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Sixe daies shalt thou laboure, and do all thy worke,

American Standard Version
Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;

Bible in Basic English
On six days do all your work:

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Sixe dayes thou shalt labour, and do all that thou hast to do:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
but the seventh day is a sabbath unto the LORD thy God, in it thou shalt not do any manner of work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou.

King James Version (1611)
Sixe dayes thou shalt labour, and doe all thy worke.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Six days thou shalt work, and thou shalt do all thy works;

English Revised Version
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

Berean Standard Bible
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In sixe daies thou schalt worche, and thou schalt do alle thi werkis;

Young's Literal Translation
six days thou dost labour, and hast done all thy work,

Update Bible Version
Six days you shall labor, and do all your work;

Webster's Bible Translation
Six days thou shalt labor, and do all thy work:

World English Bible
Six days shall you labor, and do all your work;

New King James Version
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

New Living Translation
You have six days each week for your ordinary work,

New Life Bible
Six days you will do all your work.

New Revised Standard
Six days you shall labor and do all your work.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
six days, shalt thou labour, and do all thy work;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.

Revised Standard Version
Six days you shall labor, and do all your work;

New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

Contextual Overview

⁶ ‘I am the Lord your God. I am the one who freed you from Egypt, where you were slaves. ⁷ ‘You must not worship any other gods except me. ⁸ ‘You must not make any idols. Don't make any statues or pictures of anything up in the sky or of anything on the earth or of anything down in the water. ⁹ Don't worship or serve idols of any kind, because I am the Lord your God. I hate for my people to worship other gods. People who sin against me become my enemies. And I will punish them, and their children, their grandchildren, and even their great-grandchildren. ¹⁰ But I will be very kind to people who love me and obey my commands. I will be kind to their families for thousands of generations! ¹¹ ‘You must not use the name of the Lord your God to make empty promises. If you do, the Lord will not let you go unpunished. ¹² ‘You must keep the Sabbath a special day like the Lord your God commanded. ¹³ Work six days a week and do your job, ¹⁴ but the seventh day is a day of rest in honor of the Lord your God. So on that day no one should work—not you, your sons and daughters, foreigners living in your cities or your men and women slaves. Not even your cattle, donkeys, and other animals should do any work! Your slaves should be able to rest just as you do. ¹⁵ Don't forget that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. The Lord your God brought you out of Egypt with his great power and made you free. That is why the Lord your God commands you to always make the Sabbath a special day.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 23:12, Exodus 35:2, Exodus 35:3, Ezekiel 20:12, Luke 13:14-16, Luke 23:56

Reciprocal: Exodus 16:26 - General Leviticus 23:3 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Compare Exodus 20:0 and notes.

Moses here adopts the Ten Words as a ground from which he may proceed to reprove, warn, and exhort; and repeats them, with a certain measure of freedom and adaptation. Our Lord Mark 10:19 and Paul Ephesians 6:2-3 deal similarly with the same subject. Speaker and hearers recognized, however, a statutory and authoritative form of the laws in question, which, because it was familiar to both parties, needed not to be reproduced with verbal fidelity.

Deuteronomy 5:12-15

The exhortation to observe the Sabbath and allow time of rest to servants (compare Exodus 23:12) is pointed by reminding the people that they too were formerly servants themselves. The bondage in Egypt and the deliverance from it are not assigned as grounds for the institution of the Sabbath, which is of far older date (see Genesis 2:3), but rather as suggesting motives for the religious observance of that institution. The Exodus was an entrance into rest from the toils of the house of bondage, and is thought actually to have occurred on the Sabbath day or “rest” day.

Deuteronomy 5:16

The blessing of general well-being here annexed to the keeping of the fifth commandment, is no real addition to the promise, but only an amplification of its expression.

Deuteronomy 5:21

The “field” is added to the list of objects specifically forbidden in the parallel passage Exodus 20:17. The addition seems very natural in one who was speaking with the partition of Canaan among his hearers directly in view.