Exo 35:2 | NETfull | STEP | In six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the Lord . Anyone who does work on it will be put to death.

Exodus 35:2

2 In six days ^{▼▼ This is an adverbial accusative of time.} work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day ^{▼▼ The word is קֹדֶשׁ (qodesh, “holiness”). S. R. Driver suggests that the word was transposed, and the line should read: “a sabbath of entire rest, holy to Jehovah” (Exodus, 379). But the word may simply be taken as a substitution for “holy day.”} for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the Lord. ^{▼▼ See on this H. Routtenberg, “The Laws of the Sabbath: Biblical Sources,” Dor le Dor 6 (1977): 41-43, 99–101, 153–55, 204–6; G. Robinson, “The Idea of Rest in the Old Testament and the Search for the Basic Character of Sabbath,” ZAW 92 (1980): 32-43.} Anyone who does work on it will be put to death.