the people.

Nehemiah 13:15-22
In those days I saw people in Judah treading wine presses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day. . . .

Exodus 20:10
but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work--neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.

Leviticus 23:3
For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is to be a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the LORD.

Deuteronomy 5:12-14
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you. . . .

Isaiah 58:13, 14
If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD's holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words, . . .

Jeremiah 17:21, 22
This is what the LORD says: Take heed for yourselves; do not carry a load or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. . . .

on the holy day.

Exodus 12:16
On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. You must not do any work on those days, except to prepare the meals--that is all you may do.

Leviticus 16:29
This is to be a permanent statute for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you shall humble your souls and not do any work--whether the native or the foreigner who resides among you--

Leviticus 23:21, 35, 36
On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly, and you are not to do any regular work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the generations to come. . . .

Colossians 2:16
Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a festival, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.

and that we.

Exodus 23:10, 11
For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce, . . .

Leviticus 25:4-7
But in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of complete rest for the land--a Sabbath to the LORD. You are not to sow your field or prune your vineyard. . . .

2 Chronicles 36:21
So the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the days of the desolation, until seventy years were completed, in fulfillment of the word of the LORD through Jeremiah.

the exaction.

Nehemiah 5:1-13
About this time there was a great outcry from the people and their wives against their fellow Jews. . . .

Deuteronomy 15:1-3, 7-9
At the end of every seven years you must cancel debts. . . .

Matthew 6:12
And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors;

Matthew 18:27-35
His master had compassion on him, forgave his debt, and released him. . . .

James 2:13
For judgment without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful. Mercy triumphs over judgment.

debt.

Isaiah 58:6
Is not the fast I have chosen to break the chains of wickedness, to untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free, and tear off every yoke?