The Fourth Commandment

3. The Fourth Commandment.
The Sabbath. In Exodus 20:1-26, we have the record of the well-known Ten Commandments. In Exodus 20:9-10, we have the Fourth Commandment, which is the Sabbath.

"Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work...But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt NOT DO ANY WORK, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates." As one can see, the Sabbath was a day of complete rest for everyone within the Jewish nation, including the children, servants, visitors, cattle, oxen, and etc. This principle was laid down by God at Creation, as stated in Exodus 20:11,

"For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day..." (See also Genesis 2:1-3)