HENRY FORD: Why I Favor Five Days’ Work With Six Days’ Pay<\/a>]. There is nothing inherently right or wrong with the concept. In the New Testament God requires that men work for a living (II Thessalonians 3:10). He did not specify how many hours per week or how many days per week.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Question: Many people today work for 5 days and rest on the other 2 days of the week. Even if we are no longer under the Old Testament Law; is it a contradiction to God’s design, where the people were supposed to work for 6 days (Exodus 20:9) and rest for 1 day weekly? 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