The Biblical Sabbath
The Sabbath of the Pentateuch
Exodus 20:8-11 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
These were the words that were spoken by God to Moses who gave the Law to the flock of Israel. Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy was spoken by God, but He did not leave the flock of Israel in the dark with such a broad commandment. Moses could reflect back to when the flock of Israel was on their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: the children of Israel cried because they were hungry, having just left Egypt and entering into the wilderness, they counted their deliverance of little or no value. They cried, “we should have died in Egypt, and died by some of the plagues which slaughtered the Egyptians” as if it were not the hand of the Lord, but Moses who delivered them into that hungry wilderness. So Moses remembered what the Lord told him in the past. He (God) would be the One to take care of Israel and bring them into a land where milk and honey flowed abundantly. God told Moses to go and let them know that I have heard their cry and I will provide for them. I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather as much as they only need for the day, this way I can see if they walk in my law. The only day they can collect a double portion is on the
Exodus 20:8-11 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.
These were the words that were spoken by God to Moses who gave the Law to the flock of Israel. Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy was spoken by God, but He did not leave the flock of Israel in the dark with such a broad commandment. Moses could reflect back to when the flock of Israel was on their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness: the children of Israel cried because they were hungry, having just left Egypt and entering into the wilderness, they counted their deliverance of little or no value. They cried, “we should have died in Egypt, and died by some of the plagues which slaughtered the Egyptians” as if it were not the hand of the Lord, but Moses who delivered them into that hungry wilderness. So Moses remembered what the Lord told him in the past. He (God) would be the One to take care of Israel and bring them into a land where milk and honey flowed abundantly. God told Moses to go and let them know that I have heard their cry and I will provide for them. I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather as much as they only need for the day, this way I can see if they walk in my law. The only day they can collect a double portion is on the