Six days may work be done; but in the seventh [is] the sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD: whosoever doeth [any] work in the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
Ver. 15. Whosoever doeth any work.] A certain Indian that had been taught by the English, coming by, and seeing one of the English profaning the Lord's day by felling of a tree, said to him, Do you not know that this is the Lord's day in Massachusetts (one of the English plantations), much machete man that is, very wicked man; - why break you God's day? a
a New England's Firstfruits.