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`Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.
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Sabbath Over Sacred Work
Commentators explain the crucial timing of this command. By re-issuing the Sabbath law right before ordering the Tabernacle's construction, God established a vital principle: no work, not even the most sacred project for Him, was to violate the command to rest. This highlights the supreme priority of Sabbath observance in Israel's relationship with God.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
See Exodus 31:12.
19th Century
Anglican
Moses, about to require the people to engage in the work—first, constructing the materials for the Tabernacle, and then erecting the Tabernacle its…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Six days shall work be done Or "may be done" F21 ; everyone might do what work he pleased, or the busines…
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