Discovery BoxExodus 34:21-22 
Context34:21 “On six days 1 you may labor, but on the seventh day you must rest; 2 even at the time of plowing and of harvest 3 you are to rest. 4
34:22 “You must observe 5 the Feast of Weeks – the firstfruits of the harvest of wheat – and the Feast of Ingathering at the end 6 of the year.
1 tn This is an adverbial accusative of time.
2 tn Or “cease” (i.e., from the labors).
3 sn See M. Dahood, “Vocative lamed in Exodus 2,4 and Merismus in 34,21,” Bib 62 (1981): 413-15.
4 tn The imperfect tense expresses injunction or instruction.
5 tn The imperfect tense means “you will do”; it is followed by the preposition with a suffix to express the ethical dative to stress the subject.
6 tn The expression is “the turn of the year,” which is parallel to “the going out of the year,” and means the end of the agricultural season.
