For six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is a day of sabbath rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death. The repeated death penalty in verses 14 and 15 confirms that even the construction of God's dwelling — the most sacred possible work — does not exempt Israel from the Sabbath. The Sabbath frames and limits even Spirit-filled, divinely commissioned labor. The craftsmen who build the sanctuary pause every seventh day, and that pausing is itself an act of worship: the covenant community's participation in God's own creative rest.

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