Exodus 20:10 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

any. Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Genus). App-6. not any forbidden work. Compare Leviticus 23:7; Leviticus 23:8; Numbers 28:18. nor. Note the Figure of speech Paradiastole (App-6), for emphasis. thy manservant. Some codices, with three early printed editions and The Targum of Jonathan ben Uzziel, read "nor thy manservant". gates. Put by Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for cities.

Exodus 20:10

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: