Exodus 31

"Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death... It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever; for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day He rested and was refreshed.’” vv.15,17

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Scripture is key to scripture. Verse unlock mysteries of other verses and here is one of my favorites on a very debatable subject: How long was a day during the creation week? Many believe the world is millions or billions of years old, some believe that Genesis 1 isn't literal but figurative and a day could've meant 1,000 years. Here in Exodus when God's giving Moses the commandments for working and the Sabbath day of rest, He refers tot eh creation week. Now if each day represented 1,000 or 1,000,000 years is God saying in Exodus you must work 6,000 or 6,000,000 years and then you can rest? Of course not! I believe that the days in the creation week were a literal ~24 hour day (one being and one morning) and this passage helps prove that. The other cool thing about the Sabbath was that it wasnt because the Lord got tired and needed rest like man does, but "the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath" (Mark 2:27). What are your thoughts on the time of the creation week? When God provides you rest, do you take it?