Deuteronomy 5:14

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

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 that He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had done.

Understand that the Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day He will give you two days’ worth of bread. Each of you stay where you are; no one is to leave his place on the seventh day.”

for somewhere He has spoken about the seventh day in this way:

And on the seventh day
God rested from all His works.

Thy stranger

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.

Thy man-servant

“Do your work for six days but rest on the seventh day so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female slave as well as the foreign resident may be refreshed.

Your male and female slaves are to be from the nations around you; you may purchase male and female slaves.

We and our children are just like our countrymen and their children, yet we are subjecting our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters are already enslaved, but we are powerless because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”

General references

So the people rested on the seventh day.

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you; that is why I am giving you this command today.

Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I am commanding you to do this.

Then He told them, “The Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath.