OLD TESTAMENT

Nehemiah 10:31

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31

and if the peoples of the land bring wares or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and that we would forego the seventh year crops and the exaction of every debt.

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Verse 31. Holy day. The contrary practice is therefore sinful. Bible.—Year. Not cultivating the land. Leviticus 25:4.—Hand. No debts were to be demanded. Deuteronomy 15:1. Menochius.

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