Ethiopian Canon Compliance Catalogue

Jubilees 2:29-30

Declare and say to the children of Israel the law of this day both that they should keep Sabbath thereon, and that they should not forsake it in the error of their hearts;

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Your Spirit

Loves God

By preparing for His day as one prepares for an honoured guest — the effort beforehand is itself devotion.

Loves Neighbor

By carrying my burdens on the six days so that the seventh imposes none on those who share it with me.

Your Body

Moral Behaviour

Use the day before rest to close down work and provision the household

on the day itself, set aside 'their own pleasure' — the private agenda that competes with God's

keep the day's boundaries at the doors of your dwelling

Ethiopian Canon Compliance Catalogue

Jubilees 2:29-30

(and) that it is not lawful to do any work thereon which is unseemly, to do thereon their own pleasure, and that they should not prepare thereon anything to be eaten or drunk, and (that it is not lawful) to draw water, or bring in or take out thereon through their gates any burden,

Part 2 of 3

Your Spirit

Loves God

By preparing for His day as one prepares for an honoured guest — the effort beforehand is itself devotion.

Loves Neighbor

By carrying my burdens on the six days so that the seventh imposes none on those who share it with me.

Your Body

Moral Behaviour

Use the day before rest to close down work and provision the household

on the day itself, set aside 'their own pleasure' — the private agenda that competes with God's

keep the day's boundaries at the doors of your dwelling

Ethiopian Canon Compliance Catalogue

Jubilees 2:29-30

which they had not prepared for themselves on the sixth day in their dwellings. And they shall not bring in nor take out from house to house on that day; for that day is more holy and blessed than any jubilee day of the jubilees; on this we kept Sabbath in the heavens before it was made known to any flesh to keep Sabbath thereon on the earth.

Part 3 of 3

Your Spirit

Loves God

By preparing for His day as one prepares for an honoured guest — the effort beforehand is itself devotion.

Loves Neighbor

By carrying my burdens on the six days so that the seventh imposes none on those who share it with me.

Your Body

Moral Behaviour

Use the day before rest to close down work and provision the household

on the day itself, set aside 'their own pleasure' — the private agenda that competes with God's

keep the day's boundaries at the doors of your dwelling

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