Jon Collins

Here, in Deuteronomy 5, six days you do your work, seventh day you Shabbat, so that your slaves can get the same rest that you, and the implied you there is the slave owner.

Yeah, yeah.

Your slave is not your slave on the Shabbat, as it were.

Your slave gets the same rest from work.

Gets treated the same.

Yeah, yes.

There's an equality to the seventh day.

And then you go back to that list and you're like, oh, yeah, your son or your daughter, slaves, animals, immigrants, everybody dies.

becomes an equal, as it were, on the day of Shabbat.

This has kind of a social angle to it, as opposed to a cosmic angle.

Isn't that interesting?

Now, this social angle of social equality, the Sabbath is about a

a temporary pause in, what do you say, social hierarchies of power and labor.

Everybody just stops and rests.

And then verse 15 of Deuteronomy 5 comes and provides a reason for all this that is also different from the Exodus version.

Verse 15 reads, "...and you will remember that you all were slaves in the land of Egypt."

And Yahweh your Elohim brought you out with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm.

Therefore, Yahweh your Elohim commanded you to keep the Shabbat.

So you used to be slaves in Egypt.

Yeah.