Deuteronomy 5:14
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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.
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Hebrews 4:4
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4 For he has somewhere spoken of the seventh day in this way: (A)“And God rested on the seventh day from all his works.”
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Genesis 2:2
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2 And (A)on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.
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Exodus 23:12
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12 (A)“Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.
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Exodus 16:29-30
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29 See! The Lord has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.” 30 So the people (A)rested on the seventh day.
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Nehemiah 13:21
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21 (A)But I warned them and said to them, “Why do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.
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Nehemiah 5:5
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5 Now (A)our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet (B)we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.”
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Nehemiah 13:15
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15 In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses (A)on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, (B)which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And (C)I warned them on the day when they sold food.
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Leviticus 25:44-46
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44 As for your male and female slaves whom you may have: you may buy male and female slaves from among the nations that are around you. 45 (A)You may also buy from among the strangers who sojourn with you and their clans that are with you, who have been born in your land, and they may be your property. 46 You may bequeath them to your sons after you to inherit as a possession forever. You may make slaves of them, but over your brothers the people of Israel (B)you shall not rule, one over another ruthlessly.
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