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Exo 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Psalm 92
[[A Psalm or Song for the sabbath day.]]
It is a good thing to give thanks unto the LORD, and to sing praises unto thy name, O most High:
To shew forth thy lovingkindness in the morning, and thy faithfulness every night,
Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
For thou, LORD, hast made me glad through thy work: I will triumph in the works of thy hands.
O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.
A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
But thou, LORD, art most high for evermore.
For, lo, thine enemies, O LORD, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
Mine eye also shall see my desire on mine enemies, and mine ears shall hear my desire of the wicked that rise up against me.
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
To shew that the LORD is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
Shabbat Shalom
HUGS
If that reply was to me, the word sabbath is conspicuously absent from Genesis. No one in Genesis is ever seen observing a sabbath day command.Adam, the 6th day, so they would rest together.
Shalom
What about Abraham?If that reply was to me, the word sabbath is conspicuously absent from Genesis. No one in Genesis is ever seen observing a sabbath day command.
God never commanded anyone to keep a sabbath command, until He gave it to Israel, as a memorial of remembrance of being set free from Egyptian slavery, after their Exodus, and as a covenant sign between the nation of Israel, and Himself.
REMEMBER that YOU (Israel) were slaves in Egypt and I took you out with a mighty hand. THEREFORE (because of the aforementioned deliverance from Egyptian slavery) I gave YOU (the nation of Israel) this sabbath day command.
That wouldn’t be much of a memorial of remembrance and a covenant sign - as God calls the sabbath day command elsewhere- to give them a command that was kept since the 6th day of creation, would it?
In fact Moses refutes the claim that any of their ancestors had the sabbath day command, when he was about to give Israel the covenant law God gave to them, which includes the Decalogue:
Note the chapter heading in the Bible for this passage:
The Ten Commandments.
Deu 5:1 And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Hear, O Israel, the statutes and the ordinances which I speak in your ears this day, that ye may learn them, and observe to do them.
Deu 5:2 Jehovah our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
Deu 5:3 Jehovah made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
No one had the covenant law and ten commands until Moses received them, after the Exodus from Egypt.
Shalom aleichem.
What about Abraham?
What commandments and statutes and laws is the Lord speaking of?
Gen 26:5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.
We know that The Lord created the 7th day to rest in it. Would he not have given it to his friend as well?
By give, would that mean a command?
Blessed are they that keep my commandments...
Peace
and Hugs
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