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18 And all the Angels of the
Presence, and all the Angels
of Sanctification, these two
great classes--He hath hidden
us to keep the Sabbath with
Him in heaven and on earth.
19 And He said unto us:
“Behold, I will separate unto
Myself a people from among
all the peoples, and these will
keep the Sabbath day, and I
will sanctify them unto Myself
Cf. 1 Ki. 8:53 as My people, and will bless
them; as I have sanctified the
Sabbath day and do sanctify
(it) unto Myself, even so shall
I bless them, and they will
be My people and I shall be
their Elohim. 20 And I have
Cf. Is. 41:8,
44:1-2. chosen the seed of Jacob from
amongst all that I have seen,
and have written him down
Cf. Ex. 4:22;
Ps. 89:27. as My firstborn son, and have
sanctified him unto Myself
For the
Sabbath day for ever and ever; and I will
as a sign
between teach them the Sabbath day,
God and
Israel, cf. Ex. that they may keep Sabbath
31:13, 17;
Ez. 20:12. thereon from all work.”
However,
gentiles kept 21 And thus He created
Sabbath with therein a sign in accordance
Israel even in
the Torah. with which they should keep
i. e. with Sabbath with us on the seventh
God and
the superior day, to eat and to drink, and to
angels.
bless Him who hath created
The Sabbath all things as He hath blessed
is to be a
delight. Cf. and sanctified unto Himself
Is. 58:13
a peculiar people above all
Cf. Dt. 7:6
peoples, and that they should
keep Sabbath together with
Sabbath is
for the earth
too from
Creation. He
hid the higher
classes
of angels
but not His
Sabbath.
Gentiles also
keep the
Sabbath in
the Exodus
account
many times:
Ex. 12:49,
Num. 9:14,
15:26-29,
Lev. 16:29,
18:26, 19:34,
17:12.
T H E
S A B B A T H
us. 22 And He caused His
commands to ascend as a Cf.
sweet savour acceptable before 2Cor. 2:15;
Eph. 5:2
Him all the days. . .
23 There (were) two and Itthatis probable
at end
22 above
twenty heads of mankind ofthere
is a
in
from Adam to Jacob, and two lacuna
the text
by
and twenty kinds of work were (indicated
the dotted
made until the seventh day; line). Charles
restores
this is blessed and holy; and the missing
words as
the former also is blessed and follows: As
there were
holy; and this one serves with two and
letters,
that one for sanctification and twenty
and two
twenty
blessing. 24 And to this (Jacob and
(sacred)
[viz.
and his seed) it was granted books
in the Old
that they should always be the Testament],
and two and
blessed and holy ones of the twenty heads
of mankind
first testimony and law, even as from Adam
to Jacob, so
He had sanctified and blessed there were
made two
the Sabbath day on the seventh and twenty
of work,
day. 25 He created heaven kinds
etc.
and earth and everything viz. the
that He created in six days, Sabbath.
and Elohim made the seventh viz. Jacob.
day holy, for all His works;
therefore He commanded on
its behalf that, whoever doth
any work thereon shall die,
Ex. 31:14,
and that he who defileth it shall Cf.
15, 35:2;
surely die. 26 Wherefore do Nm. 15:32 f.
thou command the children
of Israel to observe this day
that they may keep it holy and Cf. Ex. 20:8
not do thereon any work, and
not to defile it, as it is holier Cf. 2:30
than all other days. 27 And
whoever profaneth it shall
surely die, and whoever doeth
thereon any work shall surely
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