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Yahweh’s Sabbath

“‘For six days work is to be done, and on the seventh day shall be a Sabbath of complete rest,[a] a holy assembly; you shall not do any work; it shall be a Sabbath for Yahweh in all your dwellings.

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 23:3 Literally “a Sabbath of ‘Sabbathation.’” “Sabbathation” is not a real word, but it is devised as an attempt to convey the sounds of the related nouns in the Hebrew phrase

Work can be done for six days, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of special rest, a holy occasion. You must not do any work on it; wherever you live, it is a Sabbath to the Lord.

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