Exodus 23:12 
Context| NET © | For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, in order that your ox and your donkey may rest and that your female servant’s son and any hired help 1 may refresh themselves. 2 |
| NIV © | "Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the slave born in your household, and the alien as well, may be refreshed. |
| NASB © | "Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as your stranger, may refresh themselves. |
| NLT © | "Work for six days, and rest on the seventh. This will give your ox and your donkey a chance to rest. It will also allow the people of your household, including your slaves and visitors, to be refreshed. |
| MSG © | "Work for six days and rest the seventh so your ox and donkey may rest and your servant and migrant workers may have time to get their needed rest. |
| BBE © | For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you. |
| NRSV © | Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your donkey may have relief, and your homeborn slave and the resident alien may be refreshed. |
| NKJV © | "Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed. |
| KJV | |
| NASB © | "Six <08337> days <03117> you are to do <06213> your work <04639> , but on the seventh <07637> day <03117> you shall cease <07673> from labor so <04616> that your ox <07794> and your donkey <02543> may rest <05117> , and the son <01121> of your female <0519> slave <0519> , as well as your stranger <01616> , may refresh themselves.<05314> |
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| LXXM | |
| NET © [draft] ITL | For six <08337> days <03117> you are to do <06213> your work <04639> , but on the seventh <07637> day <03117> you must cease <07673> , in order that <04616> your ox <07794> and your donkey <02543> may rest <05117> and that your female servant’s <0519> son <01121> and any hired help <01616> may refresh themselves.<05314> |
| NET © | For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, in order that your ox and your donkey may rest and that your female servant’s son and any hired help 1 may refresh themselves. 2 |
| NET © Notes |
1 tn Heb “alien,” or “resident foreigner.” Such an individual would have traveled out of need and depended on the goodwill of the people around him. The rendering “hired help” assumes that the foreigner is mentioned in this context because he is working for an Israelite and will benefit from the Sabbath rest, along with his employer. 2 tn The verb is וְיִּנָּפֵשׁ (vÿyyinnafesh); it is related to the word usually translated “soul” or “life.” |
