Genesis 2:2 (NIV) By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work.
Exodus 20:8-10 (TLB) 8 "Remember to observe the Sabbath as a holy day. 9 Six days a week are for your daily duties and your regular work, 10 but the seventh day is a day of Sabbath rest before the Lord your God. On that day you are to do no work of any kind, nor shall your son, daughter, or slaves—whether men or women—or your cattle or your house guests.
Leviticus 23:3 (TLB) These [feast days] are in addition to your Sabbaths —the seventh day of every week—which are always days of rest in every home, times for assembling to worship, and for resting from the normal business of the week.
Leviticus 26:35 (TLB) Yes, then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbaths! It will make up for the rest you didn’t give it every seventh year when you lived upon it.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Jesus spoke about the ox in the ditch on the Sabbath. But if your ox gets in the ditch every Sabbath, you should either get rid of the ox or fill up the ditch. Billy Graham (1918- ) Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World.
