⛶The Word for Friday, 18 July 2025
Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest.
Exodus 34:21
Jesus said to the Pharisees, Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.
Matthew 12:11-12
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The firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb, or if you will not redeem it you shall break its neck. All the firstborn of your sons you shall redeem. And none shall appear before me empty-handed. |
| 21 “Six days you shall work, but on the seventh day you shall rest. In plowing time and in harvest you shall rest. |
| 22 You shall observe the Feast of Weeks, the firstfruits of wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the year's end. |
| 10 And a man was there with a withered hand. And they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—so that they might accuse him. |
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He said to them, “Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out? |
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Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” |
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Then he said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” And the man stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other. |
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