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NASB | Exodus 20:10 but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Exodus 20:10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath [a day of rest dedicated] to the LORD your God; on that day you shall not do any work, you or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock or the temporary resident (foreigner) who stays within your [city] gates. |
Bible Question: YOU SHALL KEEP THE SABBATH DAY HOLY, HOW CAN I KEEP THIS LAW AS A CHRISTIAN? |
Bible Answer: "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. 11For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it." Exodus 20:8-11 NKJV How does one keep (observe) the Sabbath? What does the Bible say? Following are the biblical teachings regarding keeping the Sabbath. 'The Old Testament takes Sabbath observance so seriously that profaning it results in the death penalty (Exod 31:14; 35:2; Num 15:32).' '...the Sabbath is a day of rest and worship given as a gift from the restless condition of slavery. The prohibition of work extended to all those living within Israel, including slaves and animals (Exod 20:10), even during the plowing season (Exod 34:21). This necessitated additional work on the sixth day (Exod 16:5,23). What constitutes rest and work? In the Torah there are only two explicit prohibitions concerning work on the Sabbath. No fires were to be kindled in Jewish dwellings (Exod 35:3), and no one was to leave their place (Exod 16:29). However, more can be inferred from other texts. For example, Moses instructed the people to bake and boil the manna and put it aside until morning (Exod 16:23-24), hinting that cooking was not fitting for the Sabbath. A man found gathering sticks on the Sabbath was stoned to death (Num 15:32-36). The carrying of a burden or bringing it by Jerusalem's gates was prohibited (Jer 17:22). Nehemiah closed the city gates to the merchants who were said to profane the Sabbath by carrying their goods and selling them (Neh 13:15-22). Most important is the Torah's placement of the laws concerning the Sabbath directly adjacent to the instructions for building the tabernacle (Exod. 31), implying that each of the many varieties of work associated with tabernacle construction was prohibited on the Sabbath. 'Just as joy is more than the absence of sorrow, the Sabbath is more than cessation of labor. Resting in bed all day does not amount to a keeping of the Sabbath. The Sabbath is to be a delight and joy (Isa 58:13). Noteworthy is the fact that the fourth commandment (Exod 20:8) places the positive command to keep the Sabbath holy before the negative prohibition to cease working. As worship, additional sacrifices were offered (Num 28:9-10) at the temple, and the special shewbread was to be set out "sabbath after sabbath" to signify Israel's commitment to the covenant (Lev 24:8)...' --Craig J. Slane Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Edited by Walter A. Elwell, 1996, Published by Baker Books, a division of Baker Book House Company, Grand Rapids ____________________ http://bible.crosswalk.com/Dictionaries/ BakersEvangelicalDictionary/bed.cgi |