but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh 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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and you take of their daughters to your sons, and their daughters play the prostitute after their gods, and make your sons play the prostitute after their gods.
"'Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.
On the first day shall be a holy convocation: you shall do no regular work.
"Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you.
If a poor man, one of your brothers, is with you within any of your gates in your land which Yahweh your God gives you, you shall not harden your heart, nor shut your hand from your poor brother;
Then there arose a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brothers the Jews.
In those days also saw I the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab:
"Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?
Thus says Yahweh, Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;
The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.
For judgment is without mercy to him who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment.