Rest

How Nave’s arranged it

• Divine institutions for
• See Sabbath
• Days ofExodus 23:12Exodus 34:21
• The annual feasts, added rest daysLeviticus 23:7Leviticus 23:8Leviticus 23:21Leviticus 23:25Leviticus 23:28Leviticus 23:30Leviticus 23:31Leviticus 23:35Leviticus 23:36Numbers 28:18Numbers 28:25Numbers 28:26Numbers 29:1Numbers 29:7Numbers 29:12Numbers 29:35
• Recommended by Jesus withMark 6:31Mark 6:32Matthew 8:18Matthew 8:24
• HEAVENLY2 Thessalonians 1:7
• SPIRITUALMatthew 11:29Hebrews 4:1–11
• See Peace, Spiritual

The passages, in Bible order (25)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Exodus 23:12

   For six days you are to do your work, but on the seventh day you must cease, so that your ox and your donkey may rest and the son of your maidservant may be refreshed, as well as the foreign resident.

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   “Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest--This law is repeated [Ex 20:9] lest any might suppose there was a relaxation of its observance during the sabbatical year.

   “Six days thou shalt do thy work - Though they were thus bound to keep the sabbatical year, yet they must not neglect the seventh day’s rest or weekly Sabbath; for that was of perpetual obligation, and was paramount to all others. That the sanctification of the Sabbath was of great consequence in the sight of God, we may learn from the various repetitions of this law; and we may observe that it has still for its object, not only the benefit of the soul, but the health and comfort of the body also. Doth God care for oxen?

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2. Exodus 34:21

   Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.

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   “Six days shalt thou work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest,....

   “In earing time and in harvest thou shalt rest - This commandment is worthy of especial note; many break the Sabbath on the pretense of absolute necessity, because, if in harvest time the weather happens to be what is called bad, and the Sabbath day be fair and fine, they judge it perfectly lawful to employ that day in endeavoring to save the fruits of the field, and think that the goodness of the day beyond the preceding, is an indication from Providence that it should be thus employed. But is not the above command pointed directly against this?

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3. Leviticus 23:7

   On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly; you are not to do any regular work.

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   “In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation,....

   “(1.) It is a holy convocation; that is, "If it lie within your reach, you shall sanctify it in a religious assembly: let as many as can come to the door of the tabernacle, and let others meet elsewhere for prayer, and praise, and the reading of the law," as in the schools of the prophets, while prophecy continued, and afterwards in the synagogues.

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4. Leviticus 23:8

   For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”

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   “But ye shall offer an offering made by, fire unto the Lord seven days,....

   “They were not idle days spent in sport and recreation (as many that are called Christians spend their holy days), but offerings were made by fire unto the Lord at his altar; and we have reason to think that the people were taught to employ their time in prayer, and praise, and godly meditation.

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5. Leviticus 23:21

   On that same day you are to proclaim a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This is to be a permanent statute wherever you live for the generations to come.

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   “And ye shall proclaim on the selfsame day, that it may be an holy convocation unto you,....

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6. Leviticus 23:25

   You must not do any regular work, but you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD.’”

   ›Commentary on Leviticus 23:252 voices

   “Ye shall do no servile work therein,.... Only such as was necessary for dressing food, but not any manual work, such as servants were employed in on other days, as agriculture or any mechanic business: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord; a burnt offering, and what that was may be seen in Num 29:1.

   “It was typical of the preaching of the gospel, by which joyful sound souls were to be called in to serve God and keep a spiritual feast to him. The conversion of the nations to the faith of Christ is said to be by the blowing of a great trumpet, Isa. xxvii. A repetition of the law of the day of atonement, that is, so much of it as concerned the people.

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7. Leviticus 23:28

   On this day you are not to do any work, for it is the Day of Atonement, when atonement is made for you before the LORD your God.

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   “Whatsoever soul - Either of the Jewish nation, or religion. Hereby God would signify the absolute necessity which every man had of repentance and forgiveness of sin, and the desperate condition of all impenitent persons.

   “Ye shall do no work in that same day,.... No more than on the weekly sabbath: for it is a day of atonement, to make atonement for you before the Lord your God: See Gill on Lev 16:30; Aben Ezra's note is,"for you only,''that is, for the Israelites, and not the Gentiles; but the atonement of Christ, the antitype of this, was not for the sins of the Jews only, but for the sins of the whole world, of all his people in it, 1Jn 2:2.

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8. Leviticus 23:30

   I will destroy from among his people anyone who does any work on this day.

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   “And whatsoever soul it be that doeth any work in that same day,.... Any sort of work whatever; for, as before observed, it was to be kept as strictly as the weekly sabbath: the same soul will I destroy from among his people; with the pestilence, as the above Targum; it seems to be but another phrase for cutting them off, and to signify the same thing.

   “The reason is: For it is a day of atonement. Note, The humbling of our souls for sin, and the making of our peace with God, is work that requires the whole man, and the closest application of mind imaginable, and all little enough. He that would do the work of a day of atonement in its day, as it should be done, had need lay aside the thoughts of every thing else.

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9. Leviticus 23:31

   You are not to do any work at all. This is a permanent statute for the generations to come, wherever you live.

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   “Ye shall do no manner of work,.... Which is repeated, that it might be observed, and to show how strictly God required this day should be kept, and how careful men should be of breaking the command in this respect, and how much he should resent it if they did: it shall be a statute for ever, throughout your generations, in all your dwellings; unto the coming of the Messiah, who, by the atoning sacrifice of himself, would answer to this law, and put an end to it.

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10. Leviticus 23:35

    On the first day there shall be a sacred assembly. You must not do any regular work.

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    “While the solid branches were reserved for the construction of the booths, the lighter branches were carried by men, who marched in triumphal procession, singing psalms and crying "Hosanna!" which signifies, "Save, we beseech thee!" (Ps 118:15, 25, 26). It was a season of great rejoicing.

    “On the first day shall be an holy convocation,....

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11. Leviticus 23:36

    For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the eighth day you are to hold a sacred assembly and present an offering made by fire to the LORD. It is a solemn assembly; you must not do any regular work.

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    “And so indeed it was, as for other reasons, so because, by their removal from the tabernacles into fixed habitations, it represented that happy time wherein their 40 years tedious march in the wilderness was ended with their settlement in the land of Canaan, which it was most fit they should acknowledge with such a solemn day of thanksgiving as this was.

    “While the solid branches were reserved for the construction of the booths, the lighter branches were carried by men, who marched in triumphal procession, singing psalms and crying "Hosanna!" which signifies, "Save, we beseech thee!" (Ps 118:15, 25, 26). It was a season of great rejoicing.

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12. Numbers 28:18

    On the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.

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    “26, 27. in the day of the first-fruits . . . offer the burnt offering--A new sacrifice is here ordered for the celebration of this festival, in addition to the other offering, which was to accompany the first-fruits (Le 23:18).

    “In the first day shall be an holy convocation,.... The first of the seven days, which was kept in a very religious manner: ye shall do no manner of servile work therein; except by preparing food to eat; see Exo 12:16.

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13. Numbers 28:25

    On the seventh day you shall hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.

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    “26, 27. in the day of the first-fruits . . . offer the burnt offering--A new sacrifice is here ordered for the celebration of this festival, in addition to the other offering, which was to accompany the first-fruits (Le 23:18).

    “And on the seventh day ye shall have an holy convocation,.... As on the first: ye shall do no servile work; unless in dressing food.

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14. Numbers 28:26

    On the day of firstfruits, when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD during the Feast of Weeks, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.

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    “Also in the day of the firstfruits,....

    “Day of the first-fruits - Called also the feast of weeks, and the feast of pentecost. See it explained Exo 23:14 (note), and Lev 23:15 (note).

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15. Numbers 29:1

    “On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This will be a day for you to sound the trumpets.

    ›Commentary on Numbers 29:12 voices

    “Although the institution of this feast was described before, there is more particularity here as to what the burnt offering should consist of; and, in addition to it, a sin offering is prescribed.

    After these, in the seventh month other festivals are celebrated. "On the first day of the month" there is the new moon of trumpets, just as it says in the psalm, "Play the trumpet at the beginning of the month." But "on the tenth day of the seventh month" there is the festival of atonement. Only "on this day" is the high priest dressed with all the pontifical garments. Then he is dressed in "the manifestation and truth." Then he goes into that inaccessible place where he can approach only "once a year," that is, into "the Holy of Holies."

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16. Numbers 29:7

    On the tenth day of this seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you shall humble yourselves; you must not do any work.

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    “And ye shall have on the tenth day. This was the day of Atonement. For although they never came into God's presence without supplication for pardon, they then in a special manner confessed their sins, because a fast was appointed in token of their guilt.

    “Its institution, together with the observance to which that day was devoted, was described (Le 16:29, 30). But additional offerings seem to be noticed, namely, the large animal sacrifice for a general expiation, which was a sweet savor unto the Lord, and the sin offering to atone for the sins that mingled with that day's services.

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