Keluaran 20:9

20:9 For six days ¹  you may labor ²  and do all your work, ³ 

Lukas 13:14

13:14 But the president of the synagogue, indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath, said to the crowd, “There are six days on which work ⁴  should be done! ⁵  So come ⁶  and be healed on those days, and not on the Sabbath day.”

[20:9]  ¹ tn The text has simply “six days,” but this is an adverbial accusative of time, answering how long they were to work (GKC 374 §118.k).

[20:9]  ² tn The imperfect tense has traditionally been rendered as a commandment, “you will labor.” But the point of this commandment is the prohibition of work on the seventh day. The permission nuance of the imperfect works well here.

[20:9]  ³ tn This is the occupation, or business of the work week.

[13:14]  ⁴ sn The irony is that Jesus’ “work” consisted of merely touching the woman. There is no sense of joy that eighteen years of suffering was reversed with his touch.

[13:14]  ⁵ tn Grk “on which it is necessary to work.” This has been simplified in the translation.

[13:14]  ⁶ tn The participle ἐρχόμενοι (ercomenoi) has been translated as a finite verb due to requirements of contemporary English style.