EXODUS 31:16 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.”
The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant. The lasting covenant — brit olam — places the Sabbath alongside circumcision as a permanent, generational covenant marker. Hebrews 4:9 says there remains a Sabbath-rest for the people of God — the lasting Sabbath covenant points forward to the eschatological rest that the weekly Sabbath shadows. What Israel observes weekly anticipates what the whole creation will enter permanently when all things are made new in Christ.
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