Jon Collins
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It requires a lot of intentionality.
It's a lot of intentionality.
It takes a lot of work to rest.
For a futile purpose.
And then fourth is remember the Shabbat.
Remember and keep the Shabbat.
Yeah, it's a way that you imitate God.
And then it clearly affects how you relate to people, because that whole list of people, we're all going to benefit from the rest together.
Yeah, commands one through four, the phrase, Yahweh, your Elohim, is repeated throughout all of the first four.
And then it goes away in commands five through ten.
So, the first two commands, yeah, about no other gods, no idols.
are very clearly about how you relate to God, not carrying the name of Yahweh for a futile purpose.
That's about honoring God by how you represent him.
And then Shabbat is imitating God's own rest.
But every one of those does have implications for how you treat other people.
Idolatry has huge implications for how people treat people.