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It is the sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord, Ex 31:15. It is separated from common use, and designed for the honour and service of God, and by the observance of it we are taught to rest from worldly pursuits and the service of the flesh, and to devote ourselves, and all we are, have, and can do, to God's glory.
17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in
six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.
It was to be observed throughout their generations, in every age, for a perpetual covenant. Ex 31:16. This was to be one of the most lasting tokens of that covenant which was between God and Israel.
The reason of the sabbath; for God's laws are not only backed with the highest authority, but supported with the best reason. God's own example is the great reason, Ex 31:17. As the work of creation is worthy to be thus commemorated, so the great Creator is worthy to be thus imitated, by a holy rest, the seventh day, after six days' labour, especially since we hope, in further conformity to the same example, shortly to rest with him from all our labours.
The Golden Calf
18 And he gave unto Moses, when he had made an end of
communing with him upon Mount Sinai, two tables of testimony, tables of stone, written with the finger of God.
The delivering of the two tables of testimony to Moses. God had promised him these tables when he called him up into the mount (Ex 24:12), and now, when he was sending him down, he delivered them to him, to be carefully and honourably deposited in the ark, Ex 31:18.
1 The ten commandments which God had spoken upon mount Sinai in the hearing of all the people were now