Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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
Thy stranger
Thy man-servant
General references
Bible References
The sabbath
Genesis 2:2
And by the seventh day God completed His work which He had done, and He rested (ceased) on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.
Exodus 16:29
See, the Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you the bread for two days on the sixth day. Let every man stay in his place; no man is to leave his place on the seventh day.”
Hebrews 4:4
For somewhere [in Scripture] He has said this about the seventh day: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”;
Thy stranger
Nehemiah 13:15
In those days I saw some in Judah who were treading wine presses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves or sacks of grain and loading them on donkeys, as well as wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I protested and warned them on the day they sold the produce.
Thy man-servant
Exodus 23:12
“Six days [each week] you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall stop [working] so that your ox and your donkey may settle down and rest, and the son of your female servant, as well as your stranger, may be refreshed.
Leviticus 25:44
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 (skin) is the same as that of our brothers (relatives), and our children are like their children, yet here we are forcing (selling) our sons and our daughters to be slaves; and some of our daughters are forced into bondage already, and we are powerless [to redeem them] because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”
General references
Exodus 16:30
So the people rested on the seventh day.
Deuteronomy 15:15
And you shall remember and thoughtfully consider that you were [once] a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God redeemed you; therefore, I am commanding you these things today.
Deuteronomy 24:22
You shall [thoughtfully] remember [the fact] that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I am commanding you to do this thing.
Mark 2:27
Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.