Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth and the sea and all that is in them, but on the seventh day He rested. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy.
Then God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because on that day He rested from all the work of creation that He had accomplished.
Significance
Genesis 2:3 records that God "blessed (בָּרַךְ, barak) the seventh day and sanctified it (קָדַשׁ, qadash)." Exodus 20:11 takes up this action in closely matching words: "Therefore the LORD blessed (בֵּרַךְ) the Sabbath day and set it apart as holy (קָדַשׁ)." The fourth commandment explicitly grounds Israel's Sabbath obligation in Genesis 2:3's declaration, using the same two verbs — barak and qadash — to connect God's primordial act with Israel's covenant responsibility. What God did at creation now becomes what Israel is commanded to remember and practice: the divine blessing and sanctification of the seventh day is not merely historical precedent but the theological foundation of Sabbath law.
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Reference Type
Allusion (a marked verbal parallel, not a verbatim quotation)
