EXODUS 34:21 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.”
Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest. The Sabbath command is reissued with a specific emphasis: even during plowing season and harvest — the two most labor-intensive agricultural periods, when stopping feels most economically costly. The inclusion of these peak seasons explicitly addresses the most natural exception: when work is urgent, the Sabbath is still required. Matthew 12:1 records Jesus and his disciples in grain fields on the Sabbath — the Sabbath applied to harvest time is the context of the controversy that produces Jesus' declaration that he is Lord of the Sabbath.
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