of Israel, saying: 'Verily My Sabbaths you shall keep, for it is a sign between Me and you throughout your generations, that you may know that I am the Lord who sanctifies you. You shall keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you; whoever defiles it shall surely be put to death. For whoever does any work on it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. Six days work shall be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death. Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant ".It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed."

And similar to it is His saying in the thirty-fifth chapter of the Book of Exodus: "And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together and said unto them: 'These are the words which the Lord hath commanded, that ye should do them: Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you a holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord; whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death. Ye shall kindle no fire throughout all your habitations upon the sabbath day.

And similar to it is His saying in the fifteenth chapter of the Book of Numbers: "And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. And they