Nehemiah 10:31

A Summary Of The Covenant

³⁰ We will not give our daughters in marriage to the surrounding peoples and will not take their daughters as wives for our sons. ³¹ When the surrounding peoples bring merchandise or any kind of grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or a holy day. We will also leave the land uncultivated in the seventh year and will cancel every debt. ³² We will impose the following commands on ourselves:

To give an eighth of an ounce of silver yearly for the service of the house of our God:

On the Sabbath

People of the Land

Peoples of the Land

Sabbath Day

Seventh Year

No

Exodus 23:10-11

“Sow your land for six years and gather its produce.

Nehemiah 13:15-22

At that time I saw people in Judah treading wine presses on the Sabbath. They were also bringing in stores of grain and loading them on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.

Exodus 20:10

but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. You must not do any work—you, your son or daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the foreigner who is within your gates.

Leviticus 23:3

“Work may be done for six days, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you live.

Exodus 12:16

You are to hold a sacred assembly on the first day and another sacred assembly on the seventh day. No work may be done on those days except for preparing what people need to eat—you may do only that.

Leviticus 16:29

“This is to be a permanent statute for you: In the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month you are to practice self-denial and do no work, both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.

Leviticus 23:21

On that same day you are to make a proclamation and hold a sacred assembly. You are not to do any daily work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live throughout your generations.

Leviticus 23:35-36

There is to be a sacred assembly on the first day; you are not to do any daily work.

Leviticus 25:1-7

The Lord spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai:

Deuteronomy 5:12-14

Be careful to remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy as the Lord your God has commanded you.

Deuteronomy 15:1-3

“At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts.

Deuteronomy 15:7-9

“If there is a poor person among you, one of your brothers within any of your gates in the land the Lord your God is giving you, you must not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother.

2 Chronicles 36:21

This fulfilled the word of the Lord through Jeremiah and the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation until 70 years were fulfilled.

Nehemiah 5:1-13

There was a widespread outcry from the people and their wives against their Jewish countrymen.

Isaiah 58:6

Isn’t the fast I choose:
To break the chains of wickedness,
to untie the ropes of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free,
and to tear off every yoke?

Isaiah 58:13-14

“If you keep from desecrating the Sabbath,
from doing whatever you want on My holy day;
if you call the Sabbath a delight,
and the holy day of the Lord honorable;
if you honor it, not going your own ways,
seeking your own pleasure, or talking too much;

Jeremiah 17:21-22

This is what the Lord says: Watch yourselves; do not pick up a load and bring it in through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.

Matthew 6:12

And forgive us our debts,
as we also have forgiven our debtors.

Matthew 18:27-35

Then the master of that slave had compassion, released him, and forgave him the loan.

Colossians 2:16

Therefore, don’t let anyone judge you in regard to food and drink or in the matter of a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day.

James 2:13

For judgment is without mercy to the one who hasn’t shown mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.