30So the people rested on the seventh day.
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Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-31)We have here, 1. A plain intimation of the observing of a seventh day sabbath , not only before the giving of the law upon Mount Sinai, but before the bringing of Israel out of Egypt, and therefore, from the beginning , Gen. 2:3. If the sabbath had now been first instituted, how could Moses have understood what God said to him (Exod. 16:5), concerning a double portion to be gathered on the sixth d…
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