The Holy Sabbath

Genesis 2:1-3

“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”

Genesis 7:1-5

“And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day”

Exodus 20:8-11

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work”

Exodus 23:12

“Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest: that thine ox and thine ass may rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the stranger, may be refreshed”

Isaiah 66:22-23

“And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord”

Colossians 2:16

“Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days”

Luke 4:14-21

“And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read”

Deuteronomy 16:5-6

“But at the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt”