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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Exodus 34:21

Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest, Cf Exodus 20:9; Exodus 23:12; in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest, these two seasons being mentioned since they were the busiest season for the farmer, when he would be inclined to use also the Sabbath for work.

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See also Exodus 34:21 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 34:21. _IN EARING TIME AND IN HARVEST THOU SHALT REST._] This commandment is worthy of especial note; many break the Sabbath on the pretense of absolute necessity, because, if in harvest...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The precepts contained in these verses are, for the most part, identical in substance with some of those which follow the Ten Commandments and are recorded in “the Book of the covenant” (Exo. 20–23; s...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 34 THE RESULT: THE SECOND COVENANT AND THE GLORY _ 1. The command to hew two tables of stone (Exodus 34:1)_ 2. The proclamation of Jehovah (Exodus 34:5) 3. Moses' worship and prayer (Exodus...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 34:1 J. THE COVENANT WORDS. After removing Exodus 34:5, the sublime account of the revelation of Yahweh's nature as mercy and truth in their unity, which follows on Exodus 33:23, the remainder...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    EARING. ploughing. From A. S. _erian,_ Latin. _arare._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _in plowing time_, &c. i.e. even at times when the need of working continuously might seem most urgent. For clause a, see on Exodus 23:12....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The conditions of the covenant, i.e. the laws upon the acceptance of which its establishment depends. The laws themselves seem to have received parenetic additions from the compiler....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The (re-)establishment of the covenant, with the laws upon which it is based. The passage belongs in the main to E; but it has probably been enlarged in parts with hortatory additions by the compiler....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    EARING-TIME— See Genesis 45:6. It is remarkable, with what minute care the observation of the sabbath is constantly provided for: no season, not even the most laborious and busy, was to exempt them fr...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 34 And Je-ho-vah said unto Mo-ses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which thou...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THOU SHALT MAKE THEE NO MOLTEN GODS._ No JFB commentary on these verses....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT In token that the people are forgiven, God renews His covenant relation with them. The conditions are the same as before. The Decalogue is inscribed on two fresh tables, a...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    EARING] i.e. ploughing. At these busy and critical seasons there would be a special temptation to work upon the sabbath day....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: *ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION GOD’S INSTRUCTIONS TO MOSES EXODUS CHAPTER S 19 TO 40 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 34 THE NEW FLAT STONES WITH GOD’S *COMMANDMENTS ON THEM – VERSES 1-9...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    The law of the Sabbath meets us at every turn in Exodus. It was so fundamental to the entire polity, that it naturally held a place in every section of the legislation. We have already found it (1) pr...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שֵׁ֤שֶׁת יָמִים֙ תַּעֲבֹ֔ד וּ בַ † יֹּ֥ום...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXXIV. _ THE VISION OF GOD._ Exodus 34:1 It was when God had most graciously assured Moses of His affection, that he ventured, in so brief a cry that it is almost a gasp of longing, to ask,...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    MOSES BRINGS THE RENEWED TABLES OF THE LAW Exodus 34:18 For forty days, with no sustenance from bread or water, Moses abode on the Mount-absorbed with a passion of love and awe-not counting the hours...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Moses was called again into the mount and the promised unveiling was made to him. It consisted of a declaration by God of the truth concerning Himself, first, as to His nature and second, as to His me...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Reap; when the most urgent necessity might seem to authorize labour. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Genesis 2:2....

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    "In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai." Up to this point all the dealings of God have been the...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 AND 34. We have now to examine a little what was taking place among the people, and on Moses's part, the faithful and zealous witness, as a servant of God...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SIX DAYS SHALT THOU WORK, BUT ON THE SEVENTH DAY THOU SHALT REST,.... This is the law of the seventh day sabbath, which is after repeated, to fix it in the minds and memories of the people, see Exodus...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest. Ver. 21. _In earing time and in harvest._] Though most busy times, you may not make bo...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Here is a repetition of several appointments made before, especially relating to their solemn feasts: when they had made the calf, they proclaimed a feast in honour of it; now, that they might never d...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The Tables are renued. 5 The Name of the Lord proclaimed. 8 Moses intreateth God to go with them. 10 God maketh a couenant with them, repeating certaine dueties of the first Table. 28 Moses afte...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    THIRD SECTION The New Tables of the Law for the People prone to a Hierarchy. Clearer Revelation of God’s Grace. Sterner Prohibition of Idolatry. Stricter Commands concerning the Passover, the First-b...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SECOND GIVING OF THE LAW (vs.1-28) Though the first tables of the law had been given to Moses, they never came into the camp. Thus Israel never was under absolute law. This would have meant death...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    18-27 Once a week they must rest, even in ploughing time, and in harvest. All worldly business must give way to that holy rest; even harvest work will prosper the better, for the religious observance...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Which times are expressed, because the great profit and seeming necessity of working at that time was likely to be a powerful temptation to make men break the sabbath....

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    Jehovah refuses to accompany Israel to the land of promise. "I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiff-necked people; lest I consume thee in the way." At the opening of this book, wh...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 34:21 Six H8337 days H3117 work H5647 (H8799) seventh H7637 day H3117 rest H7673 (H8799) time...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    A COVENANT CODICIL CONTAINING TEN RITUAL REQUIREMENTS WHICH WILL CONFIRM THEIR FAITHFULNESS TO THEIR OVERLORD AS SELECTED FROM CHAPTER S 20-23 (EXODUS 34:17). In counteracting the temptation to idolat...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Second tables of the law. The new vision and commission. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron. CONCLUSION: (Exodus 34:12-17). We cannot expect the benefit of God's promises unless we make conscie...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 34:1. _I will write upon these tables. Deuteronomy 10:4_. The Lord wrote on these tables according to the first writing. In the last clause of Exodus 34:28, the pronoun _he_ refers, not to Mose...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Thou shalt rest._ SABBATH REST IN HARVEST “Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest”; that is, you shall not violate the Sabbat...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Exodus 34:10_ THE RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT The engagements which man had made with God being broken, the covenant had to be commenced _de novo_. All the ground must...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT. Dazed, as it would seem, by the splendour of the vision which he had beheld, Moses forgot that God had already pledged himself to renew the covenant, and lead...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And the Lord said unto Moses, Cut out two tables of stone, hew them out like the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which you broke. And be ready in the...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    six Exodus 20:9 Exodus 23:12 Exodus 35:2 Deuteronomy 5:12 Luke 13:14

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Here is a repetition of several appointments made before, especially relating to their solemn feasts: when they had made the calf they proclaimed a feast in honour of it; now, that they might never do...

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