Remember the Sabbath Day

Illustration of Remember the Sabbath Day

The fourth commandment sets apart the seventh day for rest and worship, grounded in God's own resting after creation. Israel was to cease from labor and let their households, servants, and animals rest as well. The Sabbath became a weekly sign of the covenant and a picture of the deeper rest God gives - a rhythm of grace built into the created order.

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Strongest connections in Scripture
Exodus 20

Key Passages

The Fourth Commandment

Exodus 20:8-11

God commands a weekly day of rest, patterned on his own rest after six days of creation.

R8emember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10 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: 11 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.

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Did You Know?

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This is the longest of the Ten Commandments.

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Its reason is God's own rest after the six days of creation.

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Even servants, animals, and foreigners were to share in the rest.

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It is the only command that begins with the word 'Remember.'