20 “‘If a man sleeps with a female slave who is promised to another man(A) but who has not been ransomed or given her freedom, there must be due punishment.[a] Yet they are not to be put to death, because she had not been freed.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 19:20 Or be an inquiry

The Sabbath

“‘There are six days when you may work,(A) but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest,(B) a day of sacred assembly. You are not to do any work;(C) wherever you live, it is a sabbath to the Lord.

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13 “If you keep your feet from breaking the Sabbath(A)
    and from doing as you please on my holy day,
if you call the Sabbath a delight(B)
    and the Lord’s holy day honorable,
and if you honor it by not going your own way
    and not doing as you please or speaking idle words,(C)

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14 then you will find your joy(A) in the Lord,
    and I will cause you to ride in triumph on the heights(B) of the land
    and to feast on the inheritance(C) of your father Jacob.”
For the mouth of the Lord has spoken.(D)

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