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Saturday, the day of rest, and a key law in the post-exilic Jewish identity.
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Sabbath
Saturday, the day of rest, and a key law in the post-exilic Jewish identity.
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Key Notes
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Sabbath law becomes one of the identity markers read from Nehemiah.
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Nehemiah enforces Sabbath rest and divorce from foreign wives because religious purity requires blood purity.
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"...I saw in Judah people treating wine, wine presses on the Sabbath."
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"...all kinds of burdens which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them at the time against selling food."
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"...fish and all kinds of merchandise and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah and in Jerusalem. Then I remonstrated with..."
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"saying, You shall not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters from your sons or for yourselves. Did not King Solomon..."
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"...The first law is that you shall not work on the Sabbath because that is God's rest day, okay? Second major law is that..."
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"...how people behave. So for example, you must rest on the Sabbath. You also cannot marry outside your religion. You must be circumcised, okay?..."
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"...laws that don't make any sense. Don't eat pork. So the Sabbath right? Rests on Saturday. Don't go to the religions. Doesn't make any..."
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"...doing this? By God! Don't you know that today is a Sabbath and you have a knife on you? You are right I answered...."
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"...follow the laws, okay? To be circumcised, to rest on the Sabbath, to only marry within the tribe. And what Paul says is, what's..."
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"...Jewish priests teach people to follow the law, to follow the Sabbath, okay?"
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