Compare & Correlate · Lexical
The sabbath commandment, twice
The fourth commandment as Exodus gives it and as Deuteronomy gives it. The days are counted identically; the words around them are not. One says remember, the other keep; one rests God on the seventh day, the other rests the servant; one grounds the day in creation, the other in the exodus. Each word is checked present, or absent, in the verses cited.
Lexical: A word the passages share, with its count in the annotated corpus.
The sabbath commandment, twice. Lexical — the link is the words themselves, checked token by token against the annotated Hebrew corpus, with a count wherever rarity is the finding.
The words, as the corpus holds them (each checked present, or absent, in the verses cited beside it):
- זָכַר zakhar, “remember”
- שָׁמַר shamar, “keep”
- צִוָּה tsivvah, “command”
- שֵׁשׁ shesh, “six”
- שְׁבִיעִי shevi'i, “seventh”
- שׁוֹר shor, “ox”
- חֲמוֹר chamor, “donkey”
- נוּחַ nuach, “rest”
- שָׁמַיִם shamayim, “heavens”
- יָם yam, “sea”
- מִצְרַיִם mitsrayim, “Egypt”
- עֶבֶד eved, “servant”
- יָצָא yatsa, “bring out”
- בֵּרַךְ berakh, “bless”
Sources:
- Every word marked present or absent is checked against the tokens of the verses cited beside it by tests/test_correlations.py.
- Which wording is earlier, and why the two differ, is a question of composition history that neither text answers; the entry does not take a side.
Row by row
| Exodus 20 | Deuteronomy 5 | |
|---|---|---|
| The first word | remember the sabbath day, to keep it holyExodus 20:8 | keep the sabbath day, to keep it holyDeuteronomy 5:12 |
| Deuteronomy says remember three verses later, of something else: that you were a servant in Egypt (Deuteronomy 5:15). | ||
| Whose command | the commandment itself, with nothing behind itExodus 20:8-11 | as the LORD your God commanded youDeuteronomy 5:12 |
| The days | six days you shall labour; the seventh is a sabbathExodus 20:9-10 | six days you shall labour; the seventh is a sabbathDeuteronomy 5:13-14 |
| Exodus 20:9 and Deuteronomy 5:13 are the same words in the same order. | ||
| Who stops work | son, daughter, servant, handmaid, cattle, sojournerExodus 20:10 | the same, and the ox and the donkey namedDeuteronomy 5:14 |
| Who rests | the LORD rested on the seventh dayExodus 20:11 | that your servant and handmaid may rest as well as youDeuteronomy 5:14 |
| One verb. The subject is what changes. | ||
| Why | in six days the LORD made the heavens, the earth and the seaExodus 20:11 | you were a servant in Egypt, and the LORD brought you out with a strong handDeuteronomy 5:15 |
| Therefore | therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath dayExodus 20:11 | therefore the LORD your God commanded you to keep itDeuteronomy 5:15 |
| The same 'therefore' in both verses, closing on a different act. | ||
Where it appears in the text
- Exodus 20 — the fourth commandment, grounded in the six days
- Deuteronomy 5 — the fourth commandment, grounded in the exodus
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