21 Thus saith the Lord, Take heed to your souls, and bear no burden in the [a]Sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem.

22 Neither carry forth burdens out of your houses in the Sabbath day: neither do ye any work, but sanctify the Sabbath, as I commanded your fathers.

23 But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ears, but made their necks stiff, and would not hear, nor receive correction.

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 17:21 By naming the Sabbath day, he comprehendeth the thing that is thereby signified: for if they transgressed in the ceremony, they must needs be culpable of the rest, read Exod. 20:8, and by the breaking of this one commandment, he maketh them transgressors of the whole law, forasmuch as the first and second table are contained herein.

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