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. In it you shall not do any work: 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 the people of Israel through Moses at Mount Sinai. These commandments established the foundational covenant between God and the newly liberated Israelites, outlining their responsibilities for living together as a holy nation.
What might it look like to intentionally stop and rest in ways that benefit not just ourselves, but also those around us and even the natural world?