“for…for…for…for…for.” This is the figure of speech anaphora, where successive sentences or phrases begin with the same word or words. Anaphora emphasizes each individual item in the list.^a God is making it clear that everyone, yes, everyone, living in Israel obeys His law about the Sabbath.

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Being a resident alien did not exempt a person from God’s law. If a person did not want to live under the laws of God, Israel was only a small country, not even 200 miles long and 100 miles wide, and a person was free to leave.