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{"content":[{"abbv":"wsc","answer":"The Sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days; and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God's worship, except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.","citation":"WSC 60","long_citation":"Shorter Catechism 60","name":"Shorter Catechism","number":"60","prooftexts":{},"question":"How is the sabbath to be sanctified?","section_title":"","type":"catechism"},{"abbv":"wlc","answer":"The Sabbath or Lord's Day is to be sanctified by an holy resting all the day, not only from such works as are at all times sinful, but even from such worldly employments and recreations as are on other days lawful; and making it our delight to spend the whole time (except so much of it as is to be taken up in works of necessity and mercy) in the public and private exercises of God's worship: and, to that end, we are to prepare our hearts, and with such foresight, diligence, and moderation, to dispose and seasonably dispatch our worldly business, that we may be the more free and fit for the duties of that day.","citation":"WLC 117","long_citation":"Larger Catechism 117","name":"Larger Catechism","number":"117","prooftexts":{},"question":"How is the Sabbath or the Lord's Day to be sanctified?","section_title":"","type":"catechism"}],"content_with_prooftexts":[{"abbv":"wsc","answer":"The Sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days;<sup id='fnref:wsc1'><a href='#fn:wsc1' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>1</a></sup> and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God's worship,<sup id='fnref:wsc2'><a href='#fn:wsc2' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>2</a></sup> except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.<sup id='fnref:wsc3'><a href='#fn:wsc3' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>3</a></sup>","citation":"WSC 60","long_citation":"Shorter Catechism 60","name":"Shorter Catechism","number":"60","prooftexts":{"1":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020010.01-1\">but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.</p>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 13:15-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16013015.01-2\">In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food. Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of goods and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah, in Jerusalem itself! Then I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day? Did not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”</p>\n <p id=\"p16013019.01-2\">As soon as it began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day. Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice. But I warned them and said to them, “Why do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath. Then I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love.</p>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 58:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23058013.01-3\">“If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from doing your pleasure on my holy day,<br />\nand call the Sabbath a delight<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the holy day of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> honorable;<br />\nif you honor it, not going your own ways,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;<br />\n then you shall take delight in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;<br />\nI will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for the mouth of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has spoken.” (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","2":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020008.01-1\">“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.</p>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 23:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p03023003.03-2\">“Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in all your dwelling places.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42004016.05-3\">And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 20:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44020007.06-4\">On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","3":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 12:1-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40012001.07-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v40012001-1\">12:1 </span>At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.” He said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him:</span> <span class=\"woc\">how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?</span> <span class=\"woc\">Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?</span> <span class=\"woc\">I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40012009.07-1\">He went on from there and entered their synagogue. And a man was there with a withered hand. And they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—so that they might accuse him. He said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?</span> <span class=\"woc\">Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”</span> Then he said to the man, <span class=\"woc\">“Stretch out your hand.”</span> And the man stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"},"question":"How is the sabbath to be sanctified?","section_title":"","type":"catechism"},{"abbv":"wlc","answer":"The Sabbath or Lord's Day is to be sanctified by an holy resting all the day,<sup id='fnref:wlc1'><a href='#fn:wlc1' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>1</a></sup> not only from such works as are at all times sinful, but even from such worldly employments and recreations as are on other days lawful;<sup id='fnref:wlc2'><a href='#fn:wlc2' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>2</a></sup> and making it our delight to spend the whole time (except so much of it as is to be taken up in works of necessity and mercy<sup id='fnref:wlc3'><a href='#fn:wlc3' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>3</a></sup>) in the public and private exercises of God's worship:<sup id='fnref:wlc4'><a href='#fn:wlc4' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>4</a></sup> and, to that end, we are to prepare our hearts, and with such foresight, diligence, and moderation, to dispose and seasonably dispatch our worldly business, that we may be the more free and fit for the duties of that day.<sup id='fnref:wlc5'><a href='#fn:wlc5' rel='footnote' style='text-decoration: none;'>5</a></sup>","citation":"WLC 117","long_citation":"Larger Catechism 117","name":"Larger Catechism","number":"117","prooftexts":{"1":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020008.01-1\">“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 20:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020010.01-2\">but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","2":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 16:25-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02016025.01-1\">Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>; today you will not find it in the field. Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none.”</p>\n <p id=\"p02016027.01-1\">On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none. And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?</p>\n</div><h5>Jeremiah 17:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p24017021.01-2\">Thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>: Take care for the sake of your lives, and do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.</p>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 13:15-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16013015.01-3\">In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food. Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of goods and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah, in Jerusalem itself! Then I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day? Did not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”</p>\n <p id=\"p16013019.01-3\">As soon as it began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day. Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice. But I warned them and said to them, “Why do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath. Then I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","3":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Matthew 12:1-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p40012001.07-1\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v40012001-1\">12:1 </span>At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.” He said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Have you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him:</span> <span class=\"woc\">how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?</span> <span class=\"woc\">Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?</span> <span class=\"woc\">I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And if you had known what this means, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the guiltless.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40012009.07-1\">He went on from there and entered their synagogue. And a man was there with a withered hand. And they asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”—so that they might accuse him. He said to them, <span class=\"woc\">“Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?</span> <span class=\"woc\">Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.”</span> Then he said to the man, <span class=\"woc\">“Stretch out your hand.”</span> And the man stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>","4":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Isaiah 58:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23058013.01-1\">“If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from doing your pleasure on my holy day,<br />\nand call the Sabbath a delight<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the holy day of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> honorable;<br />\nif you honor it, not going your own ways,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;<br />\n then you shall take delight in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;<br />\nI will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for the mouth of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has spoken.”</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Luke 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p42004016.05-2\">And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read.</p>\n</div><h5>Acts 20:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p44020007.06-3\">On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.</p>\n</div><h5>1 Corinthians 16:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p46016001.06-4\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v46016001-4\">16:1 </span>Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.</p>\n</div><h5>Leviticus 23:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n<p id=\"p03023003.03-5\">“Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in all your dwelling places.</p>\n</div><h5>Psalm 92</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19092001.13-6\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19092001-6\">92:1 </span>It is good to give thanks to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to sing praises to your name, O Most High;<br />\n to declare your steadfast love in the morning,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your faithfulness by night,<br />\n to the music of the lute and the harp,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to the melody of the lyre.<br />\n For you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, have made me glad by your work;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>at the works of your hands I sing for joy.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19092005.01-6\">How great are your works, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Your thoughts are very deep!<br />\n The stupid man cannot know;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the fool cannot understand this:<br />\n that though the wicked sprout like grass<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and all evildoers flourish,<br />\nthey are doomed to destruction forever;<br />\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>but you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, are on high forever.<br />\n For behold, your enemies, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for behold, your enemies shall perish;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all evildoers shall be scattered.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19092010.01-6\">But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have poured over me fresh oil.<br />\n My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19092012.01-6\">The righteous flourish like the palm tree<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.<br />\n They are planted in the house of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they flourish in the courts of our God.<br />\n They still bear fruit in old age;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are ever full of sap and green,<br />\n to declare that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is upright;<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.</p>\n</div>\n</div><h5>Isaiah 66:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><div class=\"block-indent\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23066023.01-7\">From new moon to new moon,<br />\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and from Sabbath to Sabbath,<br />\nall flesh shall come to worship before me,<br />\ndeclares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>","5":"<div class=\"esv\"><h5>Exodus 20:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02020008.01-1\">“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.</p>\n</div><h5>Luke 23:54</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p42023054.01-2\">It was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning.</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 16:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02016022.01-3\">On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers each. And when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 16:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02016025.01-4\">Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>; today you will not find it in the field. Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none.”</p>\n</div><h5>Exodus 16:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p02016029.01-5\">See! The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”</p>\n</div><h5>Nehemiah 13:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\"><p id=\"p16013019.01-6\">As soon as it began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>"},"question":"How is the Sabbath or the Lord's Day to be sanctified?","section_title":"","type":"catechism"}],"feed":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<title></title>\n\n</head>\n<body>\n<h5 class=\"header mb-1\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:18px\">Shorter Catechism</h5>\n<p class=\"question mb-0\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><span class=\"q\">Q <em>60.</em></span>\nHow is the sabbath to be sanctified?</p>\n<div class=\"answer\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><p style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"q\">A. </span> The Sabbath is to be sanctified by a holy resting all that day, even from such worldly employments and recreations as are lawful on other days;<sup id=\"fnref:wsc1\"><a href=\"#fn:wsc1\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">1</a></sup> and spending the whole time in the public and private exercises of God's worship,<sup id=\"fnref:wsc2\"><a href=\"#fn:wsc2\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">2</a></sup> except so much as is to be taken up in the works of necessity and mercy.<sup id=\"fnref:wsc3\"><a href=\"#fn:wsc3\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">3</a></sup></p></div>\n\n <div class=\"prooftexts\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">\n <ol class=\"disc\">\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:1\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Exodus 20:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p02020010.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Nehemiah 13:15-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p16013015.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food. Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of goods and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah, in Jerusalem itself! Then I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them, \u201cWhat is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day? Did not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.\u201d</p>\n <p id=\"p16013019.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">As soon as it began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day. Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice. But I warned them and said to them, \u201cWhy do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.\u201d From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath. Then I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 58:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23058013.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cIf you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from doing your pleasure on my holy day,\nand call the Sabbath a delight\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the holy day of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> honorable;\nif you honor it, not going your own ways,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;\n then you shall take delight in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;\nI will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for the mouth of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has spoken.\u201d (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:2\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Exodus 20:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p02020008.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cRemember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Leviticus 23:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p03023003.03-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cSix days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in all your dwelling places.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Luke 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p42004016.05-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 20:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44020007.06-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:3\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 12:1-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40012001.07-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v40012001-1\">12:1\u00a0</span>At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, \u201cLook, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.\u201d He said to them, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cHave you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him:</span> <span class=\"woc\">how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?</span> <span class=\"woc\">Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?</span> <span class=\"woc\">I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And if you had known what this means, \u2018I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,\u2019 you would not have condemned the guiltless.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.\u201d</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40012009.07-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">He went on from there and entered their synagogue. And a man was there with a withered hand. And they asked him, \u201cIs it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?\u201d\u2014so that they might accuse him. He said to them, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cWhich one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?</span> <span class=\"woc\">Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.\u201d</span> Then he said to the man, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cStretch out your hand.\u201d</span> And the man stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n </ol>\n </div>\n\n <h5 class=\"header mb-1\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:18px\">Larger Catechism</h5>\n<p class=\"question mb-0\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><span class=\"q\">Q <em>117.</em></span>\nHow is the Sabbath or the Lord's Day to be sanctified?</p>\n<div class=\"answer\" style=\"display:block; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:16px\"><p style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"q\">A. </span> The Sabbath or Lord's Day is to be sanctified by an holy resting all the day,<sup id=\"fnref:wlc1\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc1\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">1</a></sup> not only from such works as are at all times sinful, but even from such worldly employments and recreations as are on other days lawful;<sup id=\"fnref:wlc2\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc2\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">2</a></sup> and making it our delight to spend the whole time (except so much of it as is to be taken up in works of necessity and mercy<sup id=\"fnref:wlc3\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc3\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">3</a></sup>) in the public and private exercises of God's worship:<sup id=\"fnref:wlc4\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc4\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">4</a></sup> and, to that end, we are to prepare our hearts, and with such foresight, diligence, and moderation, to dispose and seasonably dispatch our worldly business, that we may be the more free and fit for the duties of that day.<sup id=\"fnref:wlc5\"><a href=\"#fn:wlc5\" rel=\"footnote\" style=\"text-decoration: none;\">5</a></sup></p></div>\n\n <div class=\"prooftexts\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">\n <ol class=\"disc\">\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:1\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Exodus 20:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p02020008.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cRemember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Exodus 20:10</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p02020010.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:2\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Exodus 16:25-28</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p02016025.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Moses said, \u201cEat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>; today you will not find it in the field. Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none.\u201d</p>\n <p id=\"p02016027.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they found none. And the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> said to Moses, \u201cHow long will you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Jeremiah 17:21-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p24017021.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Thus says the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>: Take care for the sake of your lives, and do not bear a burden on the Sabbath day or bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem. And do not carry a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath or do any work, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your fathers.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Nehemiah 13:15-22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p16013015.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food. Tyrians also, who lived in the city, brought in fish and all kinds of goods and sold them on the Sabbath to the people of Judah, in Jerusalem itself! Then I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them, \u201cWhat is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day? Did not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.\u201d</p>\n <p id=\"p16013019.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">As soon as it began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day. Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice. But I warned them and said to them, \u201cWhy do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.\u201d From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath. Then I commanded the Levites that they should purify themselves and come and guard the gates, to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, O my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your steadfast love. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:3\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Matthew 12:1-13</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p40012001.07-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v40012001-1\">12:1\u00a0</span>At that time Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pluck heads of grain and to eat. But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, \u201cLook, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.\u201d He said to them, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cHave you not read what David did when he was hungry, and those who were with him:</span> <span class=\"woc\">how he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?</span> <span class=\"woc\">Or have you not read in the Law how on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath and are guiltless?</span> <span class=\"woc\">I tell you, something greater than the temple is here.</span> <span class=\"woc\">And if you had known what this means, \u2018I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,\u2019 you would not have condemned the guiltless.</span> <span class=\"woc\">For the Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.\u201d</span></p>\n \n<p id=\"p40012009.07-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">He went on from there and entered their synagogue. And a man was there with a withered hand. And they asked him, \u201cIs it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?\u201d\u2014so that they might accuse him. He said to them, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cWhich one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?</span> <span class=\"woc\">Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! So it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath.\u201d</span> Then he said to the man, <span class=\"woc\">\u201cStretch out your hand.\u201d</span> And the man stretched it out, and it was restored, healthy like the other. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:4\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 58:13-14</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23058013.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cIf you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>from doing your pleasure on my holy day,\nand call the Sabbath a delight\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and the holy day of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> honorable;\nif you honor it, not going your own ways,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;\n then you shall take delight in the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;\nI will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for the mouth of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has spoken.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Luke 4:16</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p42004016.05-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up. And as was his custom, he went to the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and he stood up to read.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Acts 20:7</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p44020007.06-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">1 Corinthians 16:1-2</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p46016001.06-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v46016001-4\">16:1\u00a0</span>Now concerning the collection for the saints: as I directed the churches of Galatia, so you also are to do. On the first day of every week, each of you is to put something aside and store it up, as he may prosper, so that there will be no collecting when I come.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Leviticus 23:3</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p03023003.03-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cSix days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> in all your dwelling places.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Psalm 92</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19092001.13-6\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\"><span class=\"chapter-num\" id=\"v19092001-6\">92:1\u00a0</span>It is good to give thanks to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to sing praises to your name, O Most High;\n to declare your steadfast love in the morning,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and your faithfulness by night,\n to the music of the lute and the harp,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>to the melody of the lyre.\n For you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, have made me glad by your work;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>at the works of your hands I sing for joy.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19092005.01-6\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">How great are your works, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>!\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>Your thoughts are very deep!\n The stupid man cannot know;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>the fool cannot understand this:\n that though the wicked sprout like grass\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and all evildoers flourish,\nthey are doomed to destruction forever;\n <span class=\"indent\"></span>but you, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>, are on high forever.\n For behold, your enemies, O <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>for behold, your enemies shall perish;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>all evildoers shall be scattered.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19092010.01-6\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">But you have exalted my horn like that of the wild ox;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>you have poured over me fresh oil.\n My eyes have seen the downfall of my enemies;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>my ears have heard the doom of my evil assailants.</p>\n <p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p19092012.01-6\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">The righteous flourish like the palm tree\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and grow like a cedar in Lebanon.\n They are planted in the house of the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they flourish in the courts of our God.\n They still bear fruit in old age;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>they are ever full of sap and green,\n to declare that the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> is upright;\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Isaiah 66:23</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<div class=\"block-indent\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p class=\"line-group\" id=\"p23066023.01-7\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">From new moon to new moon,\n<span class=\"indent\"></span>and from Sabbath to Sabbath,\nall flesh shall come to worship before me,\ndeclares the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n <li class=\"footnote\" id=\"fn:5\">\n <div class=\"esv\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Exodus 20:8</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p02020008.01-1\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\u201cRemember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Luke 23:54</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p42023054.01-2\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">It was the day of Preparation, and the Sabbath was beginning.</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Exodus 16:22</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p02016022.01-3\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">On the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers each. And when all the leaders of the congregation came and told Moses,</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Exodus 16:25-26</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p02016025.01-4\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">Moses said, \u201cEat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span>; today you will not find it in the field. Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day, which is a Sabbath, there will be none.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Exodus 16:29</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p02016029.01-5\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">See! The <span class=\"small-caps\">Lord</span> has given you the Sabbath; therefore on the sixth day he gives you bread for two days. Remain each of you in his place; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.\u201d</p>\n</div>\n<h5 style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0; font-size:14px\">Nehemiah 13:19</h5>\n<div class=\"esv-text\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">\n<p id=\"p16013019.01-6\" style=\"display:inline; font-family:Georgia, Serif; margin:0; padding:0\">As soon as it began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day. (<a href=\"http://www.esv.org\" class=\"copyright\">ESV</a>)</p>\n</div>\n</div>\n </li>\n \n </ol>\n </div>\n</body>\n</html>\n","title":"How is the Sabbath or the Lord's day to be sanctified?"}