John Gill's Exposition on Nehemiah 10:31

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And if the people of the land bring ware, etc.] Any thing to be sold, any sort of goods, that being sold might be taken away, as the word signifies; or any victuals on the sabbath day to sell; anything to make food of; wheat or barley, as Aben Ezra interprets it; the same word is rendered corn, (see Gill on “<014201>Genesis 42:1”); to sell which was not lawful on the sabbath day, (see <300805>Amos 8:5) that we would not buy it of them on the sabbath, or on the holy day; any festival, as the feast of the passover, pentecost, and tabernacles: and that we would leave the seventh year: the ground untilled in that year, the vines unpruned, and the fruits of the earth, which sprung of themselves, for the poor to gather, (<032504>Leviticus 25:4-7), and the exaction of every debt; that they would not demand the payment of any debt on the seventh year, as the law required they should not, (<051502>Deuteronomy 15:2).

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