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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.
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Holiness in the Marketplace
Commentators explain that the people's renewed commitment was intensely practical, specifically targeting their economic lives. They pledged not to buy goods or grain on the Sabbath or other holy festivals, directly applying God's law to their daily commerce and resisting the practices of the surrounding cultures.
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Nehemiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Bring ware ... on the sabbath day – Compare (Nehemiah 13:16), where this desecration of the Sabbath is shown to have co…
19th Century
Anglican
Or on the holy day. —On the great festivals, equally with the Sabbath days of rest.
Leave the seventh year.…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And if the people of the land bring ware Any thing to be sold, any sort of goods, that being sold might be taken awa…
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