49. What were some features of the Sabbath in the Old Testament?
A. The Sabbath provided time for physical rest.
Exodus 23:12 Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.B. The Sabbath provided time for spiritual rest through worship, fellowship, and devotion to God's Word and promises.
Read Leviticus 23 and Deuteronomy 6, where God gives days and seasons of worship to Israel for them to remember His saving deeds and His gracious care for them.
Note: Rest was part of the rhythm that God put in place for His Old Testament Church. On every seventh day (Saturday), people and animals rested from their work. Every seventh year, the land was to rest from planting and harvest. Every fiftieth year (the year after seven times seven years), all debts were canceled (Genesis 2:3; Leviticus 25; and Isaiah 61).
Eventual commentary - focus on Leviticus 23
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