Nehemiah 10:31

They committed to keep the Sabbath holy by not trading on it, and to observe the sabbatical year by releasing debts. They prized obedience to God above commercial gain.

Cross-references · 21

• Lev 23:3Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
• Neh 13:15–22In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
• Exod 23:10–11And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
• Exod 20:10But 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:
• Jer 17:21–22Thus saith the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
• Lev 23:35–36On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
• Lev 23:21And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do no servile work therein: it shall be a statute for ever in all your dwellings throughout your generations.
• Isa 58:13–14If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
• Neh 5:1–13And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews.
• 2 Chr 36:21To fulfil the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
• Deut 5:12–14Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.
• Exod 12:16And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
• Deut 15:7–9If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
• Isa 58:6Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
• Lev 16:29And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
• Deut 15:1–3At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.
• Lev 25:1–7And the LORD spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,
• Matt 6:12And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
• Matt 18:27–35Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
• Col 2:16Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
• Jas 2:13For he shall have judgment without mercy, that hath shewed no mercy; and mercy rejoiceth against judgment.

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