“ Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: ”
The Hebrew name which is rendered in our King James Version as the ten commandments occurs in Exodus 34:28 ; Deuteronomy 4:13 ; Deuteronomy 10:4 . It literally means “the Ten Words.” The Ten Com...
Exodus 20-24, 34. The Codes in Exodus. Recent study has by many converging lines of argument, based on subject matter, choice of words, relation to the context, idiomatic phrasing, comparison with...
labour . The Hebrew accent (zarka) marks this word for emphasis: implying that the fourth Commandment is twofold, and no seventh-day rest can be really enjoyed without, or apart from, the six days...
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: Six days shalt thou labor - Therefore he who idles away time on any of the six days, is as guilty before God as he who works on the Sabbath. No work s...
Six days shalt thou labour, &c.— See note on Genesis 2:3 . The plain meaning of these verses is, that men should dedicate six days of the week to the common and ordinary business of life; but...
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. To keep holy or sanctify the Sabbath is to appropriate it to sacred purposes; and the purport of this com...
The Ten Commandments (vv. 1-21) Exodus 20-23, containing (1) the Decalogue (Gk. = 'Ten Words' or 'Commandments') and (2) a code of laws regulating the religious and social life of the people, and...
Six days shalt thou labour. — The form is certainly imperative; and it has been held that the fourth commandment is “not limited to a mere enactment respecting one day, but prescribes the due distr...
the “Ten Words” Spoken at Sinai Exodus 20:1-17 The Law was given by the disposition of angels, through the medium of Moses. See John 1:17 ; Acts 7:53 . It tells us, not what God is, for that...
Here we have the Ten Words of the moral Law. They are introduced by a proclamation of God concerning Himself: first as to His name, "I am Jehovah"; second, as to His relation to them, "thy God"; and,...
These verses contain the fourth commandment. This is among the earliest precepts of God. Genesis 2:3 . And how much more ought its observance to be endeared to us, since the resurrection of the Lord...
Six days shalt thou labour ,.... This is not to be taken for a precept, but a permission; not as a command enjoining men to work and labour with their hands, to provide for themselves and families t...
Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: Ver. 9. Six days shalt thou labour. ] God hath reserved but one day in seven, as he reserved the tree of knowledge of good and evil; Gen 2:2-3 ye...
The fourth commandment concerns the time of worship; God is to be served and honoured daily; but one day in seven is to be particularly dedicated to his honour, and spent in his service. Remembe...
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (vs.1-17) Before God gives the ten commandments, He makes is abundantly clear that Israel's obedience to law had nothing to do with God's previous grace toward them in delive...
The Ten Commandments. B. C. 1491. 1 And God spake all these words, saying, 2 I am th...
This may be either, 1. A command to employ those days in our worldly occasions, yet so as God and religion be not neglected on those days, as many scriptures teach us. Or, 2. A permission to do s...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 20:8 . Before Me.] That is, “in presence of Me:” suggesting that the Divine presence in Israel would greatly aggravate the sin of idolatry—under the circumstances, the wor...
Exodus 20:8-11 The early reference to the Sabbath in the Book of Genesis is no proof of its early institution, for there can be no doubt that in the Pentateuch Moses felt himself at perfect libert...
Exodus 20:1-3 . And God spake all these words saying, I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me....
Exodus 20:1 . God spake all these words. In compassion to man, and the increasing weakness of human traditions, it has pleased the infinitely wise and Holy One to renew the evidences of revelation...
Remember the Sabbath Day. The Fourth Commandment I. The first word of the Fourth Commandment reminds us that the Sabbath Day was already established among the Israelites when the law was delive...
EXPOSITION THE DELIVERY OF THE MORAL LAW . Every necessary preparation had now been made. The priests, as well as the people, had "sanctified themselves." A wholesome dread of "brea...
The Decalogue
Exodus 23:12 Luke 13:14
Breaking the Ten Commandments Exodus 20:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We have today a study on the Ten Commandments. These Commandments were written upon two tables of stone. The first four, written...