Exodus 31:12-18 ASV
(12) And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,
(13) Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily ye shall keep my sabbaths: for it is a sign between me and you throughout your generations; that ye may know that I am Jehovah who sanctifieth you.
(14) Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that profaneth it shall surely be put to death; for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
(15) Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Jehovah: whosoever doeth any work on the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.
(16) Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.
(17) It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
(18) And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of communing with him upon mount Sinai, the two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
Origin of sabbath is from the end of the Creative works of Yeshua the Creator(John 1:3)
Genesis 2:1-3 ASV
(1) And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them.
(2) And on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.
(3) And God blessed the seventh day, and hallowed it; because that in it he rested from all his work which God had created and made.
We read in Genesis 2:1-3 that Yeshua rested. What were Adam and Eve doing? Did they also rest with God or already reject the sabbath day? Believing non-believers ask for a verse stating that Adam and Eve kept the sabbath or rested with God. Comprehension calls those believing detractors out.
When Yeshua became flesh, He stated that the sabbath was made for man (Matthew 12:8, Mark 2:27-28). Understandably, because all men come from Adam. If we are human beings, the sabbath day was made for us, descendants of Adam and Eve.
Mark 2:27-28 ASV
(27) And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:
(28) so that the Son of man is lord even of the sabbath.
The sabbath day stands out of the other six days in that Yeshua blessed and sanctified (made holy) the seventh sabbath (rest) day.
Is it possible that Yeshua, after asserting ownership of the seventh day when He was in the flesh, changed His mind after His Ascension to inspire people to tell them that He no longer wants the seventh day but will exchange the seventh day for the first day of the week that He gave to men since His Creation?
What happened to sabbath keeping from the Creation to the Exodus?
I cannot find sabbath keeping mentioned in the Scriptures before the writings of Exodus 16:23-30. We do not read any new commandment establishing sabbath keeping before Exodus 16:23. However, the tone of Exodus 16:23 hints that sabbath keeping was common knowledge. The Hebrew text does not have the definite or an indefinite article before the phrase ‘holy sabbath unto Jehovah‘ as we read in the passage.
.Exodus 16:23-30 ASV
(23) And he said unto them, This is that which Jehovah hath spoken, To-morrow is a solemn rest [sabbaton], a holy sabbath [sabbat] unto Jehovah: bake that which ye will bake, and boil that which ye will boil; and all that remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.
(24) And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not become foul, neither was there any worm therein.
(25) And Moses said, Eat that to-day; for to-day is a sabbath unto Jehovah: to-day ye shall not find it in the field.
(26) Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day is the sabbath, in it there shall be none.
(27) And it came to pass on the seventh day, that there went out some of the people to gather, and they found none.
(28) And Jehovah said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?
(29) See, for that Jehovah hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
(30) So the people rested on the seventh day.
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