Exodus 20:9 (DRB)

Passage

Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.

Nearby Context

Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that shall take the name of the Lord his God in vain.

Exodus 20:8 Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day.

Exodus 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works.

Exodus 20:10 But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that is within thy gates.

Exodus 20:11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "days", "shalt", "thou", "labour", and "works". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "days" and "shalt", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 8's "Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath..." into verse 10's "But on the seventh day is the...", so "days" and "shalt" belong inside that flow. In Exodus context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "days" and "shalt" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.