Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

Bible References

The people

Nehemiah 13:15
In those days I saw in Judah [people] treading the wine press on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps [of grain] and loading them on donkeys along with wine, grapes and figs, and every kind of burden and bringing [it all] to Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath. And I warned them at that time against selling food.
Exodus 20:10
But the seventh day [is] a Sabbath for Yahweh your God; you will not do any work--you or your son or your daughter, your male slave or your female slave, or your animal, or your alien who [is] in your gates--
Leviticus 23:3
" '[For] six days work is to be done, and on the seventh day [shall be] {a Sabbath of complete rest}, a holy assembly; you shall not do any work; it [shall be] a Sabbath for Yahweh in all your dwellings.
Deuteronomy 5:12
'Observe the {Sabbath day} to make it holy, [just] as Yahweh your God has commanded you.
Isaiah 58:13
If you hold your foot back from [the] Sabbath, [from] doing your affairs on {my holy day}, if you call the Sabbath a pleasure, the holy [day] of Yahweh honorable, if you honor him {more than} doing your ways, than finding your affairs and speaking a word,
Jeremiah 17:21
Thus says Yahweh, "Be on your guard for the sake of yourselves, that you must not carry a burden on the day of the Sabbath, and you must [not] bring [it] through the gates of Jerusalem.

On the holy day

Exodus 12:16
It will be for you on the first day a holy assembly and on the seventh day a holy assembly; no work will be done on them; only what is eaten by every person, it alone will be prepared for you.
Leviticus 16:29
"And this shall be {a lasting statute} for you: in the seventh month, on the tenth of the month, you must deny yourselves and you must not do any work, [whether] the native or the alien who is dwelling in your midst,
Leviticus 23:21
And {you shall make a proclamation} on {this very same day}; it shall be a holy assembly for you; you shall not do {any regular work}; [this is] a {lasting statute} in all your dwellings throughout your generations
Colossians 2:16
Therefore do not let anyone judge you with reference to eating or drinking or participation in a feast or a new moon or a Sabbath,

And that we

Exodus 23:10
" 'And six years you will sow your land and gather its yield.
Leviticus 25:4
But in the seventh year it shall be {a Sabbath of complete rest} for the land--a Sabbath for Yahweh; you must not sow your field, and you must not prune your vineyard.
2 Chronicles 36:21
to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land has enjoyed its Sabbaths. All the days of desolation it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.

The exaction

Nehemiah 5:1
Now there was a great cry of distress of the people and of their wives [against] their Jewish brothers.
Deuteronomy 15:1
"At the end of seven years you shall grant remission of debt.
Matthew 6:12
and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.
Matthew 18:27
So the master of that slave, [because he] had compassion, released him and forgave him the loan.
James 2:13
For judgment [is] merciless to the one who has not practiced mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

Debt

Isaiah 58:6
Is this not [the] fast I choose: to release [the] bonds of injustice, to untie [the] ropes of [the] yoke, and to let [the] oppressed go free, and {tear} every yoke to pieces?