FACT.......The word SABBATH does not appear in the Garden of Eden!!!!
Ex 20:11 legal code summarized Gen 2:1-3 and states that it is in Eden where the Sabbath was set apart for mankind - sanctified - instituted
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The word for 'rested' is "
sabat" (Strongs 7673a- )used in connection with Sabbath - repeatedly in the OT. A religious act of worship/rest.
As in Exodus 16:30 "the people rested on the seventh day"
Note - 7676
Shabbath from 7673a = "Sabbath" - exclusively in scripture as we see it
in the summary of Exodus 20:8-11 where God summarizes the Gen 1-2:3
account.
Here God provides the authoritative example of rest and tells us this day is to be "set aside" - for it already has been - by God "sanctified".
John Wesley –
"The commencement of the kingdom of grace,
in the sanctification of the Sabbath day, Genesis 2:3 . He rested on that day, and took a complacency in his creatures, and then sanctified it, and appointed us on that day to rest and take a complacency i
n the Creator; and his rest is in the fourth commandment made a reason for ours after six days labour. Observe, 1. That the
solemn observation of one day in seven as a day of holy rest, and holy work, is the indispensable duty of all those to whom God has revealed his holy sabbaths. 2. That sabbaths are as ancient as the world. 3. That the Sabbath of the Lord is truly honorable, and we have reason to honour it; honour it for the sake of its antiquity, its great author, and the
sanctification of the first Sabbath by the holy God himself, and in obedience to him,
by our first parents in innocency.See note at "Ge 2:1 See note at "Ge 2:1
Matthew Henry Gen 2
"The eternal God, though infinitely happy in the enjoyment of himself, yet took a satisfaction in the work of his own hands. He did not rest, as one weary, but as one well-pleased with the instances of his own goodness and the manifestations of his own glory.II. The commencement of the kingdom of grace, in the sanctification of the sabbath day, v. 3.
He rested on that day, and took a complacency in his creatures,
and then sanctified it, and appointed us, on that day, to rest and take a complacency in the Creator;
and his rest is, in the fourth commandment, made a reason for ours, after six days’ labour. Observe, 1. The solemn observance of one day in seven, as a day of holy rest and holy work, to God’s honour, is the indispensable duty of all those to whom God has revealed his holy sabbaths. 2. The way of sabbath-sanctification is the good old way, Jer. 6:16.
Sabbaths are as ancient as the world; and I see no reason to doubt that the
Sabbath, being now instituted in innocency, was religiously observed by the people of God throughout the patriarchal age. 3. The Sabbath of the Lord is truly honourable, and we have reason to honour it—honour it for the sake of its antiquity, its great Author, t
he sanctification of the first Sabbath by the holy God himself, and
by our first parents in innocency, in obedience to him. 4. The Sabbath day is a blessed day, for God blessed it, and that which he blesses is blessed indeed. God has put an honour upon it, has appointed us, on that day, to bless him, and has promised, on that day, to meet us and bless us. 5. The Sabbath day is a holy day, for God has sanctified it. He has separated and distinguished it from the rest of the days of the week, and he has consecrated it and set it apart to himself and his own service and honour."
"Though it is commonly taken for granted that the Christian
Sabbath we observe, reckoning from the creation,
is not the seventh but the first day of the week, yet being a seventh day, and we in it, celebrating the rest of God the Son, and the finishing of the work of our redemption, we may and ought to act faith
upon this original institution of the Sabbath day, and to commemorate the work of creation, to the honour of the great Creator, who is therefore worthy to receive, on that day, blessing, and honour, and praise, from all
religious assemblies"