12Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. …
Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
Six days thou shalt labour, and do all thy work: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-19)Here is, I. The institution of the sabbatical year, Exod. 23:10 , 11 . Every seventh year the land was to rest; they must not plough nor sow it at the beginning of the year, and then they could not expect any great harvest at the end of the year: but what the earth did produce of itself should be eaten from hand to mouth, and not laid up. Now this was designed, 1. To show what a plentiful land tha…
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