exodus 13

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==exodus 13:9-13:

Also you shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt. Six years you shall sow your land and gather in its produce,  but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave, the beasts of the field may eat. In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove.  Six days you shall do your work, and on the seventh day you shall rest, that your ox and your donkey may rest, and the son of your female servant and the stranger may be refreshed. And in all that I have said to you, be circumspect and make no mention of the name of other gods, nor let it be heard from your mouth.

​The people of the Sabbath are to be just and God-fearing; they are to bring rest, through their godly social order, even to foreigners in their midst. Animals and the land shall reap the benefit of the peaceful dominion established by the covenant race. The goal is to universalize the Sabbath and its meaning among all nations, and Isaiah declared that this would come to pass, "and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me (Is 66:23).