Sabbath Rest
From Eco-Bible 1
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- Information is being added as the Bible Pages are added. In the end, everything will be compiled, further information added (as necessary), broken links connected, etc.
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See also: Fourth Commandment (& links to it)!
Scripture Pages that Link to Here
- Gen 2:2 On the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
- Gen 2:3 God blessed the seventh day, and made it holy, because he rested in it from all his work which he had created and made.
- Don't overwork; do provide rest and refreshment. - Applies to treatment of land, animals, workers, others.
- For land: 1 year rest in 7. / For people and animals: 1 day rest in 7.
- Sabbath rest for land every 7th year. (Also: Jubilee every 50th year.)
- One of the results of disobedience - God will remove them from the land, so that the land will get its sabbath rests. (Compare with v. 2, "You shall keep my Sabbaths...")
See also: Concerning those sent into exile:
- 2Ch 36:20-21 - ... they were servants to him [Nebuchadnezzar] and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia: to fulfill the word of Yahweh by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its Sabbaths: for as long as it lay desolate it kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years.
Compare to:
- Lev 26:34-35 - Then the land will enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land. Even then the land will rest and enjoy its sabbaths. As long as it lies desolate it shall have rest, even the rest which it didn't have in your sabbaths, when you lived on it.
Unless otherwise noted, all notes and comments are © by Dennis Hinks.
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