Bible Dictionary: The Sabbath: No Purchases to be Made On

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Nehemiah 10:31
And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Nehemiah 13:15-17
In those days saw I in Judah some treading wine presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

The Fifth Day in Passion-Week - Make Ready the Passover!'
... 16th Nisan), so as to avoid the Sabbath following on ... If we mistake not, these purchases
had, however, already ... the Passover-day there would have been no time to ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter ix the fifth day.htm

The Plea of Faith
... Delivered on Sabbath Evening, June 22, 1856, by the. ... circulation of the butter shop,
but we have no book that is ... If a person purchases a novel, it is well known ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/the plea of faith.htm

Concentration in Prayer
... We discriminated in our purchases for our friends, lest we should ... thy day!" Let us
begin this very Sabbath night ... We are in no hurry of business or of pleasure to ...
/.../whyte/lord teach us to pray/xix concentration in prayer.htm

Chronology of the Life of Christ.
... as no fires were allowed to be kindled on the Sabbath (Ex ... day before the Passover;
for then there would have been no need of such haste for purchases as the ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 16 chronology of the.htm

The Unjust Steward - Dives and Lazarus - Jewish Agricultural Notes ...
... which were acknowledgements of debt for purchases made, such as ... the time for making
provision for the next (the Sabbath). ... we notice that there is no analogy in ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xviii the unjust steward.htm

The Paschal Supper - the Institution of the Lord's Supper.
... of the Feast (on the 15th Nisan), it would be unlawful to make purchases. ... festive
day, or 15th Nisan, was to be followed by a Sabbath, on which no such work ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter x the paschal supper.htm

Covenanting a Duty.
... dutiful for all to vow to keep the sabbath. ... sanctioned in the Divine law, and no
reason can ... it existence, organises, incorporates, and purchases it,"confers ...
/.../cunningham/the ordinance of covenanting/chapter iii covenanting a duty.htm