“‘Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to the LORD in all your dwellings.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 3. Sabbath. Hebrew “the rest of rest;” a day in which no unnecessary servile work must be done, no more than on the great holidays, verse 6. 8. Bible.—Called holy, because it shall be really so: in which sense the word is often used. Isaiah 9:6. and so forth—Day; you must not even dress meat, which was also forbidden on the day of expiation.—Lord, on which he ceased from work, and which you must keep in his honour.—Habitations. In the temple, the priests were intent upon sacrificing, which was indeed a material, but not a formal, violation of the sabbath. Matthew 12:5.