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Commentaries on Exodus 20:11

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John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

INTRODUCTION TO Exodus 20 In this chapter we have an account of the giving of the law on Mount Sinai; the preface to it, Exodus 20:1, the ten commandments it consists of, Exodus 20:8, the circumstances attending it, which caused the people to remove at some distance, Exodus 20:18, when they desired of Moses, that he would speak to them and not God, who bid them not fear, since this was for the...

John Gill - Exposition

John Gill

For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, c] And of which six days, and of the several things made in each of them, see the notes on the first chapter of Genesis: and resteth the seventh day: which does not suppose labour, attended with weariness and fatigue for the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not, neither is weary, Isaiah 40:28 nor ease and...

Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary

Matthew Henry

All things being prepared for the solemn promulgation of the divine law, we have, in this chapter, I. The ten commandments, as God himself spoke them upon Mount Sinai (ver. 1-17), as remarkable a portion of scripture as any in the Old Testament. II. The impressions made upon the people thereby, ver. 18-21. III. Some particular instructions which God gave privately to Moses, to be by him...

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions

Charles H. Spurgeon

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within the gates: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is,...