Plain meaningExodus 20:8–11: remember the Sabbath day, work six days, cease on the seventh, and ground the command in creation.
Pointing follows Miqra according to the Masorah (MAM); cantillation is omitted on the lesson card for visual focus. The verification evidence retains the exact MAM and OSHB/WLC readings and any witness difference.
WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT
Torah law reader
This unit is structured law, not a loose collection of vocabulary. זָכוֹר gives the positive command; שֵׁשֶׁת יָמִים תַּעֲבֹד states the work pattern; לֹא־תַעֲשֶׂה כָל־מְלָאכָה gives the prohibition; verse 11 supplies the creation rationale. The list after אַתָּה extends the prohibition through household, servant, animal, and resident sojourner.
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Exodus 20:8–11: remember the Sabbath day, work six days, cease on the seventh, and ground the command in creation.
MEANING
Biblical Hebrew
20:8 positive command · 20:9 six-day work clause · 20:10 seventh-day prohibition and scope · 20:11 creation rationale and blessing
EXAMPLES
Examples supplied by the approved curriculum.
Close translation — ‘Remember the Sabbath day, to sanctify it. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a Sabbath to Hashem your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son, your daughter, your male servant, your female servant, your animal, or your sojourner within your gates. For in six days Hashem made the heavens, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore Hashem blessed the Sabbath day and sanctified it.’