Deuteronomy 5:14

but the seventh day is a sabbath of the Lord your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.

Hebrews 4:4

For He has said somewhere concerning the seventh day: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”;

Genesis 2:2

By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

Exodus 16:29-30

See, the Lord has given you the sabbath; therefore He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day. Remain every man in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.”

Exodus 23:12

“Six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you shall cease from labor so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave, as well as your stranger, may refresh themselves.

Leviticus 25:44-46

As for your male and female slaves whom you may have—you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you.

Nehemiah 5:5

Now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children. Yet behold, we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters are forced into bondage already, and we are helpless because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

Nehemiah 13:15

In those days I saw in Judah some who were treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sacks of grain and loading them on donkeys, as well as wine, grapes, figs and all kinds of loads, and they brought them into Jerusalem on the sabbath day. So I admonished them on the day they sold food.

Nehemiah 13:21

Then I warned them and said to them, “Why do you spend the night in front of the wall? If you do so again, I will use force against you.” From that time on they did not come on the sabbath.

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Summary

Deuteronomy 5:14

But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

The sabbath

Genesis 2:2

Exodus 16:29

Hebrews 4:4

Thy stranger

Nehemiah 13:15

Thy man-servant

Exodus 23:12

Leviticus 25:44

Nehemiah 5:5

General references

Bible References

The sabbath

By the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.

See, the Lord has given you the sabbath; therefore He gives you bread for two days on the sixth day. Remain every man in his place; let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.”

For He has said somewhere concerning the seventh day: “And God

rested on the seventh day from all His works”;

Thy stranger

Thy man-servant

As for your male and female slaves whom you may have—you may acquire male and female slaves from the pagan nations that are around you.

General references

So the people rested on the seventh day.

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.

Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.