Nehemiah 10:31
And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
Context
This verse from Nehemiah Chapter 10 connects to 10 cross-references. The leaders, Levites, priests, and people enter a written, sealed covenant obligating them to keep the law of Moses: not to intermarry with surrounding peoples, to observe the Sabbath and sabbatical year, to pay the annual temple tax, to provide …
Other Translations
and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy of them on the sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
and the peoples of the land who are bringing in the wares and any corn on the sabbath-day to sell, we receive not of them on the sabbath, and on a holy day, and we leave the seventh year, and usury on every hand.
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.
Cross References
And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an …
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, …
And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the fruits thereof:
But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: …
And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of …
Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall …
And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you: ye shall do …
On the first day shall be an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.
Seven days ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord: on the eighth day shall be an …
And the Lord spake unto Moses in mount Sinai, saying,