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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

Six days you may work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, a sacred assembly. You are not to do any work. It’s a Sabbath to the Lord wherever you live.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Leviticus 23:3 Lit. Lord in all your dwelling places, and so throughout the chapter