OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 20:10

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but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;

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Verse 10. Stranger. Of some other nation. Good policy required that all should conform to this regulation, whatever their religion might be. Grotius.—Maimonides says, without any probablility, that “a Gentile observing the law, was guilty of death.” Calmet.

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