Quotes About Labor

For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce,

Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

For six years you may sow your field and prune your vineyard and gather its crops.

Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.

He shall be treated like a man hired from year to year, but a foreign owner must not rule over him harshly in your sight.

and your strength will be spent in vain. For your land will not yield its produce, and the trees of the land will not bear their fruit.

Six days you shall labor and do all your work,

If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.

Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.

But the Egyptians mistreated us and afflicted us, putting us to hard labor.

You will be pledged in marriage to a woman, but another man will violate her. You will build a house but will not live in it. You will plant a vineyard but will not enjoy its fruit.

You will sow much seed in the field but harvest little, because the locusts will consume it.

You will plant and cultivate vineyards, but will neither drink the wine nor gather the grapes, because worms will eat them.

your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—

Now therefore you are under a curse and will perpetually serve as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers, as they are to this day for the congregation of the LORD and for the altar at the place He would choose.

However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they put the Canaanites to forced labor; but they failed to drive them out completely.

When Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely.

Naphtali failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath. So the Naphtalites also lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, but the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath served them as forced laborers.

And the Amorites were determined to dwell in Mount Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. But when the house of Joseph grew in strength, they pressed the Amorites into forced labor.

He will appoint some for himself as commanders of thousands and of fifties, and others to plow his ground, to reap his harvest, to make his weapons of war, and to equip his chariots.

And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, cooks, and bakers.

Instead, all the Israelites would go down to the Philistines to sharpen their plowshares, mattocks, axes, and sickles.

The charge was a pim for sharpening a plowshare or mattock, a third of a shekel for sharpening a pitchfork or an axe, and a third of a shekel for repointing an oxgoad.