Exodus 20:8-11
““Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates; for in six days Yahweh made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day; therefore Yahweh blessed the Sabbath day, and made it holy.””
This passage is part of the Ten Commandments, given by God to Moses and the Israelites at Mount Sinai shortly after their liberation from slavery in Egypt. It establishes fundamental principles for their covenant relationship with God and each other, guiding their new life as a free people.
How might remembering the purpose of rest—as a reflection of creation and a pathway to freedom—shape our approaches to work and time today?