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And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread as on any preceding day, and _all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses_. And he said unto them this is that which the Lord hath said, _to-morrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath_, bake that which ye will bake, &c. &c. If this had been the establishing of the holy Sabbath and Moses had said to-morrow _shall be_ the Sabbath, then would it have been clear; but no, he speaks as familiarly about it as we do when we say that to-morrow is the Sabbath, showing conclusively that it was known before, or how could the people have known that they must gather two day's manna on Friday the sixth day, unless they had had some previous knowledge of the Sabbath? for Moses had already taught them not to
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--v. 19. The 20th verse shows that the Sabbath had not yet come since their receiving the manna, because it spoiled and
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whereas, on the Sabbath morning it was found sweet and eatible--24th v. This was the thirtieth day after leaving Egypt (1st v.) and twenty days before it was given on Sinai. The weekly Sabbath then was appointed before this or before the days of Moses. Where was it then? Answer, in the second chapter of Genesis and no where else; and the same week on which the manna fell, the weekly Sabbath was revived among or with God's chosen people. Grotius tells us
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Other [6]writers say Assyrians, Egyptians, Arabians, Britons and Germans, all of whom divide their time into weeks. Philo says
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Josephus states
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But as they, like the great mass of God's professed people in christendom, paid little or no heed to what God had said about the particular day, (except the Jews, and a few others) they (as we are informed in history) adopted peculiar days to suit themselves, viz: the christian nations chose to obey the Pope of Rome, who changed the _seventh_ day Sabbath to the first day, and call it the holy Sabbath; the Persians selected Monday; the Grecians Tuesday; the Assyrians Wednesday; the Egyptians Thursday; the Turks Friday, and the Jews the seventh day, Saturday, as God had commanded. Three standing miracles a week, for about forty years annually, ought to perpetuate the Sabbath. 1st, double the quantity of manna on the sixth day; 2d, none on the seventh; 3d, did not spoil on the seventh day. If it does not matter which day you keep holy to the Lord, then all these nations are right. Now reflect one moment on this, and then open your bible and read the commandment of the God of all these nations!
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REMEMBER! (what you have been taught before) _the Sabbath day to keep it holy_; (which day is it Lord?)
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Who is the stranger? (Gentiles.) Now the reason for it will carry us back again to Paradise.
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Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the _Sabbath_ throughout their generations for a _perpetual covenant_; it is a SIGN between me and the children of Israel _forever_. (Why is it Lord?)