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 ox or donkey, any of your livestock, or the foreigner who lives within your gates, so that your male and female slaves may rest as you do.

An ethnically diverse crowd also went up with them, along with a huge number of livestock, both flocks and herds.

Contemptible people among them had a strong craving for other food. The Israelites cried again and said, “Who will feed us meat?

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They also said, “Let them live.” So the Gibeonites became woodcutters and water carriers for the whole community, as the leaders had promised them.

There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

In Christ there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.

General references

“If a foreigner resides with you and wants to observe the Passover to the Lord, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreign resident and the native of the land.”

He did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with all of us who are alive here today.