Reference

Exodus 20:9

Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
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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.

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Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

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

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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:

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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.

Why This Verse Was Tagged

Sabbath Commandment
Semantic Discovery
50% relevance

This verse was identified through meaning similarity — its content is mathematically close to known verses in this theme, even without sharing the same vocabulary.

Counter-Arguments

The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.

Sabbath at Creation

The verse explicitly states that one should labor for six days and do all their work, without any mention of creation or God resting on the seventh day.

Sabbath Commandment

This verse, taken in isolation, is a command to labor for six days, not a command to observe a Sabbath. While it is part of the larger Sabbath commandment context, the verse itself focuses on work rather than rest or the Sabbath as a specific day.

Seventh-Day Sabbath

This verse only mentions six days of labor and does not explicitly reference the seventh day or the Sabbath. It focuses solely on the duration of work, not the subsequent day of rest.