Tuesday, 15 December 2009 02:00 | and posted in Mount Sinai
“Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work…” Exodus 20:8-10
In Egypt the Israelites were constantly worked every day of every year. They were exploited as expendable commodities rather than as people. A day off is therefore a revolutionary concept to ex-slaves!
God is commanding them to take a day off so that they take time each week to remember they are no longer in Egypt! Their value comes from God not from how many bricks they can produce.
