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This Sabbath is to be kept holy unto the Lord when men, after a due preparing of their hearts, and ordering of their common affairs beforehand, do not only observe an holy rest all the day from their own works, words, and thoughts about their worldly employments and recreations,[Exodus 20:8, Exodus 16:23-30, Exodus 31:15-17, Isaiah 58:13 ...
In Abrahamic religions, the Sabbath (/ ˈ s æ b ə θ /) or Shabbat (from Hebrew שַׁבָּת) is a day set aside for rest and worship. According to the Book of Exodus, the Sabbath is a day of rest on the seventh day, commanded by God to be kept as a holy day of rest, as God rested from creation. [1]
The Lord of the Sabbath is an expression describing Jesus which appears in all three Synoptic Gospels: Matthew 12:1–8, [1] Mark 2:23–28 [2] and Luke 6:1–5. [3] These sections each relate an encounter between Jesus, his Apostles and the Pharisees , the first of the four " Sabbath controversies".
The Biblical Hebrew Shabbat is a verb meaning "to cease" or "to rest", its noun form meaning a time or day of cessation or rest. Its Anglicized pronunciation is Sabbath. A cognate Babylonian Sapattu m or Sabattu m is reconstructed from the lost fifth Enūma Eliš creation account, which is read as: "[Sa]bbatu shalt thou then encounter, mid[month]ly".
Seventh-day Protestants regard Sabbath as a day of rest for all mankind and not Israel alone, based on Jesus's statement, "the Sabbath was made for man", [123] and on early-church Sabbath meetings. Additionally some Seventh-day Christians would argue any commandment given to “Israel” ought to be observed by Christians as, through faith in ...
Sabbath is commanded and commended many more times in the Torah and Tanakh; double the normal number of animal sacrifices are to be offered on the day. [19] Sabbath is also described by the prophets Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Hosea, Amos, and Nehemiah. A silver matchbox holder for Shabbat from North Macedonia
Jesus then says "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. So the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath." Thus human needs take precedence over strict observance of the law. Some see this as a radical departure from the Jewish understanding of the law (see also Christianity and Judaism).
Jesus affirms the Sabbath as a creation ordinance, stating that the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. This indicates that the Sabbath is a gift from God for humanity's benefit. Isaiah 58:13-14: Describes the blessings of keeping the Sabbath as a delight.