|This strange idea is drawn from a single text in the Old
Testament and is distorted to contradict many clear statements
about the true origin of the Sabbath. The text is found in
Deuteronomy 5:14, 15: "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, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant,
nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy
stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy
maidservant may rest as well as thou. And remember that thou
wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God
brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched
out arm: therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the
Some people draw from this text that God gave the Sabbath as a
memorial of the Exodus from Egypt. But the Genesis story of the
making of the Sabbath (Genesis 2:1-3) and the wording of the
fourth commandment by God Himself (Exodus 20:11) reveals the
Sabbath as a memorial of crea