Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
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Gill's Exposition
Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God,.... At the three above mentioned feasts; see Gill on Exo 23:17 here it is added:
the God of Israel; who had chosen them to…
The precepts contained in these verses are, for the most part, identical in substance with some of those which follow the Ten Commandments and are recorded in “the Book of the covenant” (Exo. 20–23;…
Adam Clarke
In earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest - This commandment is worthy of especial note; many break the Sabbath on the pretense of absolute necessity, because, if in harvest time the weather…
Here is a repetition of several appointments made before, especially relating to their solemn feasts. When they had made the calf, they proclaimed a feast in honour of it; now, that they might never…
Cambridge Bible
in plowing time, &c. i.e. even at times when the need of working continuously might seem most urgent. For clause a, see on Exo 23:12.
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