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Exodus 20:10 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" 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: "
Exodus 20:10
Verse in Context
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8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 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:
11 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
12 Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth
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From This Chapter
Exodus 20:1
"And God spake all these words, saying,"
Exodus 20:2
"I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage."
Exodus 20:3
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me."
Exodus 20:4
"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:"
Exodus 20:5
"Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate"
Exodus 20:6
"And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments."
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