Why Did God Rest on the Seventh Day?
Britt Mooney
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Deuteronomy 5:13
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'Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
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Deuteronomy 5:13 Meaning and Commentary
Deuteronomy 5:13
(See Gill on Deuteronomy 5:12).
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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Deuteronomy 5:13 In-Context
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'You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not leave him unpunished who takes His name in vain.
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'Observe the sabbath day to keep it holy, as the LORD your God commanded you.
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'Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
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but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter or your male servant or your female servant or your ox or your donkey or any of your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you, so that your male servant and your female servant may rest as well as you.
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'You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to observe the sabbath day.
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