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According to the words of Exodus 20:11, as the de MontSabbathby Version represents, which exhibits accurately all biblical wording, God’s work “throughout” earth’s first seven days is briefly recalled, and recorded in text, while the seventh day specifically remembered is, as follows: “Throughout six days, Yahweh made the heavens and the earth, the sea and…

Presented among the above passages are two scriptures, Numbers 19:9 and Deuteronomy 14:28, which each employ the Hebrew verb, “to rest” in its Hiphil or causative conjugation. As you can see from them, its meaning thus becomes “to cause to rest” or “to place”. Being so used, this otherwise intransitive (requiring no object) verb is…

In an effort to promote, and increase familiarity, permit me to present you the Fourth Directive’s text, as it traditionally is seen in translation. For this is the scripture, which says God “rested”, traditionally as verse 11 shows below: (RSV Exodus 20:8-11) 8“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.9Six days you shall labor, and…

But additionally must we acknowledge, and recognize. We must concede, and admit what we’ve learned. For plainly has Scripture now taught, and instructed, conclusively affirming this cardinal awareness. A. Succinctly and Distinctly Without informed use of the Bible’s Fourth Directive (deMSby Exodus 20:8-11) and familiarity with God’s seventh day pursuits, which is the Fourth Directive’s…

 “This, your sanctification is the will of God” (deMSby I Thessalonians 4:3), and defines “the will of God”. And it is precisely “this, your sanctification”, which constitutes the focus of this significant scripture: “…Remember the day of the sabbath to make it holy“, or “sanctify it” (deMSby Exodus 20:8). This expounds definitively “your sanctification”: This…

In an effort to envision some rational treatment of this awkward matter of God’s having “rested”, it is at times said, and is commonly conjectured: “God is doing nothing more here than staging”, and “setting ‘an example of rest’”, which pious people should imitate, and practise on the sabbath. “For everyone knows: ‘Rest’ is the…

What an awkward recitalAnd novel confusionAbide in religiousTradition’s illusionThat “rested” did GodOn the world’s seventh dayWhile he “sanctified” allOf its sundry array Because: If the Almighty“The sabbath day” “blessed”And “made holy”, or “sanctified”Said sabbath dayCould he also this same day“The seventh day” “rest”As religious traditionDirects us to say? For “the seventh day” meansWhat “the sabbath…