Bible Cross References
the sabbath
Genesis 2:2
By the seventh day God finished what he had been doing and stopped working.
Exodus 16:29
Remember that I, the LORD, have given you a day of rest, and that is why on the sixth day I will always give you enough food for two days. Everyone is to stay where he is on the seventh day and not leave his home."
Exodus 16:30
So the people did no work on the seventh day.
Hebrews 4:4
For somewhere in the Scriptures this is said about the seventh day: "God rested on the seventh day from all his work."
thy stranger
Nehemiah 13:15
At that time I saw people in Judah pressing juice from grapes on the Sabbath. Others were loading grain, wine, grapes, figs, and other things on their donkeys and taking them into Jerusalem; I warned them not to sell anything on the Sabbath.
Nehemiah 13:21
I warned them, "It's no use waiting out there for morning to come. If you try this again, I'll use force on you." From then on they did not come back on the Sabbath.
thy man-servant
Exodus 23:12
"Work six days a week, but do no work on the seventh day, so that your slaves and the foreigners who work for you and even your animals can rest.
Leviticus 25:44-46
44
If you need slaves, you may buy them from the nations around you.
45
You may also buy the children of the foreigners who are living among you. Such children born in your land may become your property,
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and you may leave them as an inheritance to your children, whom they must serve as long as they live. But you must not treat any Israelites harshly.
Nehemiah 5:5
We are of the same race as the other Jews. Aren't our children just as good as theirs? But we have to make slaves of our children. Some of our daughters have already been sold as slaves. We are helpless because our fields and vineyards have been taken away from us."