14 but (A)the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant, or your ox or your donkey or any of your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates, (B)that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you. 15 (C)You shall remember that you were a slave[a] in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there (D)with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

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  1. Deuteronomy 5:15 Or servant

14 but the seventh day(A) is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant,(B) nor your ox, your donkey or any of your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns, so that your male and female servants may rest, as you do.(C) 15 Remember that you were slaves(D) in Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand(E) and an outstretched arm.(F) Therefore the Lord your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.

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14 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.

15 And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day.

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saying, “When will (A)the new moon be over,
    that we may sell grain?
And (B)the Sabbath,
    that we may offer wheat for sale,
that we may make (C)the ephah small and the shekel[a] great
    and deal deceitfully with false balances,

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  1. Amos 8:5 An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters; a shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams

saying,

“When will the New Moon(A) be over
    that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
    that we may market(B) wheat?”(C)
skimping on the measure,
    boosting the price
    and cheating(D) with dishonest scales,(E)

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Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?

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