Observe my Sabbaths and have reverence for my sanctuary. I am the Lord. The Sabbath and the sanctuary — the temporal and spatial expressions of covenant loyalty — are the positive commands that open the blessings-and-curses framework. The same pairing appeared in Leviticus 19:3 and 19:30. The Sabbath and the sanctuary reverence are the simplest and most fundamental expressions of covenant faithfulness: honoring the time God appointed and honoring the space God inhabits. I am the Lord grounds both.

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