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.

Thy stranger

Bible References

The sabbath

Genesis 2:2
And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made. And He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made.
Exodus 16:29
See, because Jehovah has given you the sabbath, therefore He gives you the bread of two days on the sixth day. Each one stay in his place. Let not any one go out of his place on the seventh day.
Hebrews 4:4
For He spoke in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: "And God rested the seventh day from all His works."

Thy stranger

Nehemiah 13:15
In those days I saw in Judah some treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading asses and also wine, grapes, and figs, and all kinds of burdens which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I testified against them in the day in which they sold food.

Thy man-servant

Exodus 23:12
You shall do your work six days, and on the seventh day you shall rest, so that your ox and your ass may rest, and the son of your handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed.
Leviticus 25:44
Both your male slaves, and your female slaves whom you shall have, shall be of the nations that are all around you. You shall buy male slaves and female slaves from them.
Nehemiah 5:5
Yet now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our sons like their sons. And, lo, we bring our sons and our daughters into bondage, to be slaves, and some of our daughters are brought into bondage. And there is no power for our hand, for other men have our lands and vineyards.

General references

Exodus 16:30
So the people rested on the seventh day.
Deuteronomy 15:15
And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Jehovah your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.
Deuteronomy 24:22
And you shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt. Therefore I command you to do this thing.
Mark 2:27
And He said to them, The sabbath came into being for man's sake, and not man for the sabbath's sake.