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.
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Gill's Exposition
Also we made ordinance, for us,.... Laws among themselves, binding them to that which the laws of God did not:
to charge ourselves yearly with the third part of a shekel, for the service of the…
Barnes' Notes
Bring ware ... on the sabbath day - Compare Neh 13:16, where this desecration of the Sabbath is shown to have commonly taken place. Leave the seventh year ... - i. e., “let the land rest in the…
Adam Clarke
Bring ware - We will most solemnly keep the Sabbath. Leave the seventh year - We will let the land have its Sabbath, and rest every seventh year. See on Exo 23:10-11 (note).
When Israel was first brought into covenant with God it was done by sacrifice and the sprinkling of blood, Ex. 24. But here it was done by the more natural and common way of sealing and subscribing…
Cambridge Bible
Prohibition of Traffic on the Sabbath; and Observance of Sabbatic Year
people R.V. peoples. -The peoples of the land ("ammey haârec̣) are the heathen dwellers in the land. The title -the people of the…
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