17It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
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And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am the LORD that doth sanctify you.
And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. …
Moreover also I gave them my sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the LORD that sanctify them.
For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-18)Here is, I. A strict command for the sanctification of the sabbath day, Exod. 31:13-17. The law of the sabbath had been given them before any other law, by was of preparation (Exod. 16:23); it had been inserted in the body of the moral law, in the fourth commandment; it had been annexed to the judicial law (Exod. 23:12); and here it is added to the first part of the ceremonial law, because the obs…
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