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, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
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Interpretation
There is some variation here from Ex 20 as between the Lord's prayer in Mt 6 and Lu. It is more necessary that we tie ourselves to the things, than to the words unalterably.
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This thought runs through Deuteronomy 5:13-15.