The Fourth Commandment
The Fourth Commandment as it is written,
Exodus 20:8-11 MKJV
(8) Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
(9) Six days you shall labour and do all your work.
(10) But the seventh day is the Sabbath of Jehovah your God. You shall not do any work, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your manservant, nor your maidservant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger within your gates.
(11) For in six days Jehovah made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore, Jehovah blessed the Sabbath day, and sanctified it.
There has been a lot of discussion so far about the hand or the palm of the hand and the Sabbath. A reason for this is because of the letters that make up the word “zakar” and what they represent. The middle letter is the pictograph of the palm of a hand. So now, the next sentence in our instruction can give us even more clarity concerning Yehovah’s Sabbath because He goes right into some details on what to keep our hands from doing on the Sabbath… namely, work.
Keep our hands from Work on the Sabbath
“Six days you labour, and shall do all your work…”
Six days a week are for us, mankind, to work and do our desires, “but the seventh day is a Sabbath of Yehovah your Elohim.”
The world, and all it has to offer us, and we the world, get six days of our time, attention, work, and dedication.
Yehovah commands us to give Him the seventh day.
It is by His blessing and by His Divine instruction.
He wants us to set it apart, prepare for it, and think about it. And not work on it.
Did you know we are not to buy or sell on the Sabbath?
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