THEOSISWlastow G.K.
The reference to the son of a servant and the itinerant laborer highlights the most marginalized and burdened individuals within the domestic life of Israel.
Exodus 23:12Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Six days thou shalt work: the seventh day thou shalt cease, that thy ox and thy ass may rest: and the son of thy handmaid and the stranger may be refreshed.
שֵׁ֤שֶׁת יָמִים֙ תַּעֲשֶׂ֣ה מַעֲשֶׂ֔יךָ וּבַיּ֥וֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִ֖י תִּשְׁבֹּ֑ת לְמַ֣עַן יָנ֗וּחַ שֽׁוֹרְךָ֙ וַחֲמֹרֶ֔ךָ וְיִנָּפֵ֥שׁ בֶּן־אֲמָתְךָ֖ וְהַגֵּֽר׃
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Cross references
Passages read together with this verse.
- Luke 13:14And the ruler of the synagogue being angry that Jesus had healed on the sabbath answering, said to the multitude: Six days there are wherein you ought to work. In them therefore come and be healed: and not on the sabbath day.
- Ex 35:3You shall kindle no fire in any of your habitations on the sabbath day.
- Ex 20:8Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.
- Ex 20:11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.
- Deut 5:13Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.
- Deut 5:15Remember that thou also didst serve in Egypt, and the Lord thy God brought thee out from thence with a strong hand, and a stretched out arm. Therefore hath he commanded thee that thou shouldst observe the sabbath day.
- Ex 34:21Six days shalt thou work, the seventh day thou shalt cease to plough and to reap.
- Isa 58:3Why have we fasted, and thou hast not regarded: have we humbled our souls, and thou hast not taken notice? Behold in the day of your fast your own will is found, and you exact of all your debtors.