Exodus 20:10

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, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

The seventh

Exodus 31:13

Exodus 34:21

Thou shalt

Exodus 16:27

Numbers 15:32

Luke 23:56

Thy manservant

Deuteronomy 5:14

Thy stranger

Nehemiah 13:15

General references

Bible References

The seventh

"Speak unto the children of Israel and say, 'In any wise see that ye keep my Sabbath, for it shall be a sign between me and you in your generations for to know, that I the LORD do sanctify you.

"Six days thou shalt work, and the seventh thou shalt rest: both from earing and reaping.

Thou shalt

Notwithstanding, there went out of the people in the seventh day for to gather: but they found none.

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the Sabbath day.

And they returned, and prepared odours, and ointments; but rested the Sabbath day, according to the commandment.

Thy manservant

but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God; thou shalt do no manner work: neither thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy servant, nor thy maid, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor the stranger that is within thy city, that thy servant and thy maid may rest as well as thou.

Thy stranger

Thou shalt not oppress a stranger, for I know the heart of a stranger, because ye were strangers in Egypt.

And rejoice before the LORD thy God: both thou, thy son, thy daughter, thy servant and thy maid, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the stranger, the fatherless and the widow that are among you, in the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to make his name dwell there.

Thou shalt not defraud a hired servant that is needy and poor, whether he be of thy brethren or a stranger that is in thy land within thy cities.

And if the people of the land brought wares on the Sabbath, and all manner of victuals to sell, that we would not take it of them on the Sabbath and on the holy days. And that we would let the seventh year be free concerning all manner of charge.

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.

General references

Sixth days ye shall gather it, for the seventh is the Sabbath: there shall be none therein."

Six days ye shall work, and the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, a holy feast: so that ye may do no work therein, for it is the Sabbath of the LORD, wheresoever ye dwell.

And on the Sabbath day, two lambs of a year old apiece and without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereto.

'Keep the Sabbath day that thou sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.