Within Your Gates
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Exodus 20:10
“[Nehemiah] gave command that ‘when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the Sabbath,’ they should be shut, and not opened again till the Sabbath was past. … Not inclined to abandon their purpose, ‘the merchants and sellers of all kind of ware lodged without Jerusalem once or twice,’ hoping to find opportunity for traffic, with either the citizens or the country people. Nehemiah warned them that they would be punished if they continued. … ‘From that time forth came they no more on the Sabbath.’”
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Prophets and Kings, pp. 671, 672
Sabbath TipWe not only need to refrain from working on the Sabbath ourselves, but we also need to keep others from working within the borders of our property on the day of rest. In part, this means not scheduling home repairs or other types of secular labor on the seventh day, even when it creates inconvenience for ourselves or others.
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