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do all your work
"do all your usual duties"
within your gates
Cities often had walls around them to keep out enemies, and gates for people to go in and out. AT: "within your community" or "inside your city" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy)
on the seventh day
"on day seven." Here "seventh" is the ordinal number for "7." (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/translate-ordinal)
blessed the Sabbath day
Possible meanings are that 1) God caused the Sabbath day to produce good results, or 2) God said that the Sabbath day was good.
set it apart
"set it apart for a special purpose"