Exodus 16:30Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

And the people kept the sabbath on the seventh day.
Douay-Rheims

וַיִּשְׁבְּת֥וּ הָעָ֖ם בַּיּ֥וֹם הַשְּׁבִעִֽי׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

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Marcus the Ascetic

4th centuryChurch Father

One who dedicates the sixth day to spiritual pursuits, having before subdued the initial stirrings of sin, attains through virtues a condition free from passions, cleansed of all wickedness, and rests with the mind, even from the most subtle manifestations of passions within the imagination.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Heb 4:9There remaineth therefore a day of rest for the people of God.
Lev 23:3Six days shall ye do work: the seventh day, because it is the rest of the sabbath, shall be called holy. You shall do no work on that day: it is the sabbath of the Lord in all your habitations.
Deut 5:12Observe the day of the sabbath, to sanctify it, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee.
Deut 5:14The seventh is the day of the sabbath, that is, the rest of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not do any work therein, thou nor thy son nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant nor thy maidservant, nor thy ox, nor thy ass, nor any of thy beasts, nor the stranger that is within thy gates: that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest, even as thyself.