Six days thou shalt do thy work
That is, they might do what work they would on the six days of the week:
and on the seventh day thou shall rest;
from all the work and labour done on other days, and give up themselves to religious exercises:
that thine ox and thine ass may rest;
and so every other beast, as horses, camels
and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed;
the former, the Targum of Jonathan, and so Jarchi, interprets, of one uncircumcised, and the latter, of a proselyte of the gate: this law is here repeated, partly to show that it is of the same kind with the former, namely, ceremonial and temporary; and partly, as Jarchi observes, lest it should be said, since all, the year is called the sabbath, there was no need to observe the weekly sabbath.