Versículo del Día — Martes, 15 de septiembre de 2026
Exodus 34:21
Exodus 34:21. El Versículo del Día, Martes, 15 de septiembre de 2026, con una breve reflexión.
Seis días trabajarás, mas en el séptimo día cesarás: cesarás aun en la arada y en la siega.
Exodus 34:21
Qué significa este versículo
It commands a weekly day of rest that must be kept even during plowing and harvest, the two busiest seasons when stopping feels most costly.
This line comes from Exodus 34, where God renews his covenant with Israel after the golden calf and gives Moses a second set of stone tablets. Among the laws that follow is this restatement of the Sabbath, the weekly day of rest. What sets this version apart is the added phrase about plowing and harvest. Those were the two most demanding seasons in a farmer's year. Plowing had to be finished before the rains came, and a ripe crop could be lost if it sat in the field too long. They were exactly the weeks when a day off felt impossible.
The command answers that pressure head on. Rest is not held back for the quiet stretches of the year or handed out only once the work is done. It belongs to every week, no matter how much is at stake. For a people freshly out of slavery in Egypt, where the labor never let up, a protected day of rest was part of what it meant to be free.
