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

and in the seventh day God ended his work which he had made and rested in the seventh day from all his works which he had made.

See: because the LORD hath given you a Sabbath, therefore he giveth you, the sixth day, bread for two days. Bide therefore every man at home, and let no man go out of his place the seventh day."

For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day, on this wise, "And God did rest the seventh day from all his works."

Thy stranger

At the same time saw I some treading wine presses on the Sabbath and bringing in clusters, and asses laden with wine, grapes, figs, and bringing all manner of burdens unto Jerusalem, upon the Sabbath day. And I rebuked them earnestly the same day that they sold the victuals.

Thy man-servant

Six days thou shalt do thy work and the seventh day thou shalt keep holy day, that thine ox and thine ass may rest and the son of thy maid and the stranger may be refreshed.

"'If thou wilt have bondservants and maidens, thou shalt buy them of the heathen that are round about you,

Now are our brethrens' bodies as our own bodies and their children as our children: else should we subdue our sons and daughters into bondage, and some of our daughters are subdued already, and no strength is there in our hands, and other men shall have our lands and vineyards."

General references

And the people rested the seventh day.

And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God delivered thee thence: wherefore I command thee this thing today.

And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt: wherefore I command thee to do this thing.

And he said to them, "The Sabbath day was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath day.