“but the seventh day is a sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” Ex. 20:10-11.
Q: How, could language make more clear that a particular day is involved in the Sabbath command?
Q: Or how could language make more clear that the sanctifying of this particular day springs from the fact that this specific historical event occurred on that day, the seventh day?
---The “therefore” in the Sabbath command refers back to this incident and to the particular day God blessed.
---Remove the “therefore,” and the reason for the Sabbath command disappears."
F.D. Nichols
