Jon Collins
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Appearances Over Time
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The same command, keep the Sabbath.
but the way it's worded and why you do it, totally different.
So first, let's just read the Exodus version, make sense of it.
Then let's compare it with the Deuteronomy version, make sense of it.
And then we'll ask some of the bigger questions that arise from both.
Okay, Exodus 20 version reads like this.
Remember the day of Shabbat.
So I'm actually not translating there.
I'm transliterating the word Shabbat.
That's how you say the Hebrew word.
To consecrate or to sanctify are common English translations.
Those are funky words.
Those are funky words.
That mean to recognize and then treat something as sacred, one and only, set-apart,
in relationship to the one and only set-apart God.
So there's something sacred about this day because it has a unique relationship to the sacred, unique one and only God.