Exodus 20:10 Cross References - BBE

¹⁰ But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you:

² And on the seventh day God came to the end of all his work; and on the seventh day he took his rest from all the work which he had done. ³ And God gave his blessing to the seventh day and made it holy: because on that day he took his rest from all the work which he had made and done.

²⁷ But still on the seventh day some of the people went out to get it, and there was not any. ²⁸ And the Lord said to Moses, How long will you go against my orders and my laws?

⁹ Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land. ¹⁰ For six years put seed into your fields and get in the increase; ¹¹ But in the seventh year let the land have a rest and be unplanted; so that the poor may have food from it: and let the beasts of the field take the rest. Do the same with your vine-gardens and your olive-trees. ¹² For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.

¹³ Say to the children of Israel that they are to keep my Sabbaths; for the Sabbath day is a sign between me and you through all your generations; so that you may see that I am the Lord who makes you holy.

²¹ Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.

³² Now while the children of Israel were in the waste land, they saw a man who was getting sticks on the Sabbath day. ³³ And those who saw him getting sticks took him before Moses and Aaron and all the people. ³⁴ And they had him shut up, because they had no directions about what was to be done with him. ³⁵ Then the Lord said to Moses, Certainly the man is to be put to death: let him be stoned by all the people outside the tent-circle. ³⁶ So all the people took him outside the tent-circle and he was stoned to death there, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

¹⁴ But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you. ¹⁵ And keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord your God took you out of that land by his strong hand and his stretched-out arm: for this reason the Lord has given you orders to keep the Sabbath day.

¹¹ Then you are to be glad before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is with you, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you, in the place marked out by the Lord your God as a resting-place for his name. ¹² And you will keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: and you will take care to keep all these laws.

¹⁴ Do not be hard on a servant who is poor and in need, if he is one of your countrymen or a man from another nation living with you in your land. ¹⁵ Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you. ¹⁶ Fathers are not to be put to death for their children or children for their fathers: every man is to be put to death for the sin which he himself has done. ¹⁷ Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt: ¹⁸ But keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God made you free: for this is why I give you orders to do this. ¹⁹ When you get in the grain from your field, if some of the grain has been dropped by chance in the field, do not go back and get it, but let it be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on all the work of your hands. ²⁰ When you are shaking the fruit from your olive-trees, do not go over the branches a second time: let some be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow. ²¹ When you are pulling the grapes from your vines, do not take up those which have been dropped; let them be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow. ²² Keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: for this is why I give you orders to do this.

³¹ And if the peoples of the lands come to do trade in goods or food on the Sabbath day, that we would do no trade with them on the Sabbath or on a holy day: and that in the seventh year we would take no payment from any debtor.

¹⁵ In those days, I saw in Judah some who were crushing grapes on the Sabbath, and getting in grain and putting it on asses; as well as wine and grapes and figs and all sorts of goods which they took into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I gave witness against them on the day when they were marketing food. ¹⁶ And there were men of Tyre there, who came with fish and all sorts of goods, trading with the children of Judah and in Jerusalem on the Sabbath. ¹⁷ Then I made protests to the chiefs of Judah, and said to them, What is this evil which you are doing, not keeping the Sabbath day holy? ¹⁸ Did not your fathers do the same, and did not our God send all this evil on us and on this town? but you are causing more wrath to come on Israel by not keeping the Sabbath holy. ¹⁹ And so, when the streets of Jerusalem were getting dark before the Sabbath, I gave orders for the doors to be shut and not to be open again till after the Sabbath: and I put some of my servants by the door so that nothing might be taken in on the Sabbath day. ²⁰ So the traders in all sorts of goods took their night's rest outside Jerusalem once or twice. ²¹ Then I gave witness against them and said, Why are you waiting all night by the wall? if you do so again I will have you taken prisoners. From that time they did not come again on the Sabbath.

⁵⁶ And they went back and got ready spices and perfumes; and on the Sabbath they took their rest, in agreement with the law.