A Catechism for Girls and Boys

Part II: Questions about The Ten Commandments

49. Q. What does the fourth commandment teach us?
       A. To keep the Sabbath holy.

(Click through to read scriptural proof.)

• Leviticus 23:3

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 Lord in all your dwelling places.

• Isaiah 58:13-14

If you turn back your foot from the Sabbath,

from doing your pleasure on my holy day,

and call the Sabbath a delight

and the holy day of the Lord honorable;

if you honor it, not going your own ways,

or seeking your own pleasure, or talking idly;

14 then you shall take delight in the Lord,

and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;

I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father,

for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

Six days you shall do your work, but on the seventh day you shall rest; that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and the son of your servant woman, and the alien, may be refreshed.

Scripture quoted from the English Standard Version.

Taken from A Catechism for Girls and Boys found here.

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