IT'S  SAbbath
 The Laws Concerning

Six Laws Concerning the Sabbath

In Pharisaic Judaism there are some one thousand  five hundred various law interpretations  concerning what one can do and what one is not allowed to do on what is known as Shabbat or the Sabbath. However if one searches out the actual instructions so to speak in the Scriptures only, they come up with the following six:

Remember the Sabbath and keep it Holy (Fourth Commandment of Ten)
               Exodus 20:8-11; 31:13-17 
               Deuteronomy 5:12-15; Ex 20:20.

Israel is to keep the Sabbath as a day of rest. It's to be a perpetual commandment forever.
               Genesis  2:2-3  
               Exodus  16:23;  20:8, 11;  31:13, 15-17;  34:21;  35:2
               Leviticus  19:3;  23:3 
               Deuteronomy  5:12-13 
               Isaiah  56:2 
               Ezekiel. 20:12, 20

Laws or Instructions To Be Observed On Sabbaths

       1.     Do no work on the Sabbath
                    Exodus  20:9-10;  23:12;  31:14;  35:2-3
                    Leviticus  23:3 
                    Deuteronomy  5:14
                    Nehemiah  13:15-22 
                     Jeremiah  17:22 

        2.     Not to seek ones own pleasure on Sabbath
                    Isaiah  58:13-14

        3.      No buying or selling on the Sabbath
                     Nehemiah  10:31;  13:15-22
                      Jeremiah  17:19-27

        4.      No purchase of food on the Sabbath
                       Nehemiah  10:31;  13:15-22
               4.b) If one becomes hungry one may eat of the field 
                       Deuteronomy  23:25

         5.    No cooking to be done on the Sabbath
                       Exodus  16:23; 35:3

         6.     Live stock to rest on the Sabbath
                         Exodus  20:10; 
                         Deuteronomy  5:14

The penalty of not observing the Sabbath under Torah Law is death.
           Numbers 15:32-36

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