Jon Collins

Number four.

Which literally is remember the day of the Sabbath to keep it holy.

Yeah.

Sabbath is very explicitly all throughout the Bible.

Old and New Testaments refers to from Friday at sundown to Saturday at sundown.

It spells it out?

Yes.

The time?

Okay.

The seventh day.

Yeah, because the day begins at sundown in the Bible.

Yeah.

So we'll get into all this.

But the point is that number four is the most culturally specific to the life and the liturgy and religious calendar of ancient Israel and then of later Judaism.

So let's get ourselves into the heads of an ancient Israelite.

What is the fourth command all about?

First, let's read it, and that immediately is going to confront us with another puzzle, which is the fact that this fourth command, remember the Ten Commandments appear two times in the Torah.

And this fourth command in the two versions is the most different of any of the ten commands.

Yep.

So the Exodus 20 version and the Deuteronomy chapter 5 version are really different.