xSee Jer. 17:19-23
Exodus 23:9-12
9 a“You shall not oppress a sojourner. You know the heart of a sojourner, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt.Laws About the Sabbath and Festivals
10 b“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, 11but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.12 c“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.
Deuteronomy 16:11-12
11And dyou shall rejoice before the Lord your God, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, the Levite who is within your towns, the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow who are among you, at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there. 12 eYou shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt; and you shall be careful to observe these statutes.Deuteronomy 24:14-22
14“You shall not foppress a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether he is one of your brothers or one of the sojourners who are in your land within your towns. 15 gYou shall give him his wages on the same day, before the sun sets (for he is poor and counts on it), hlest he cry against you to the Lord, and you be guilty of sin.16 i“Fathers shall not be put to death because of their children, nor shall children be put to death because of their fathers. Each one shall be put to death for his own sin.
17 j“You shall not pervert the justice due to the sojourner or to the fatherless, kor take a widow’s garment in pledge, 18but lyou shall remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this.
19 m“When you reap your harvest in your field and forget a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, nthat the Lord your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. 20When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over them again. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. 21When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not strip it afterward. It shall be for the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. 22 oYou shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt; therefore I command you to do this.
Nehemiah 10:31
31 pAnd if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. And we will forego the crops of the qseventh year and the rexaction of every debt.Nehemiah 13:15-21
15In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses son the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, twhich they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And uI warned them on the day when they sold food. 16Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of goods and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah, in Jerusalem itself! 17 vThen I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, wprofaning the Sabbath day? 18 xDid not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster ▼▼The Hebrew word can mean evil, harm, or disaster, depending on the context
on us and on this city? Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.” 19As soon as it zbegan to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day. 20Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice. 21 aaBut 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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