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IV. THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT, INCLUDED BUT SEPARATE FROM SOME CEREMONIAL LAWS
LEVITICUS 23:

3 "Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath of Yahweh in all your dwellings."

NOTE:

This is a repeat of the fourth commandment given at Mount Sinai.
LEVITICUS 23:

24 "Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation."

27 "Also on the tenth day of this seventh month there shall be a day of atonement: it shall be an holy convocation unto you; and ye shall afflict your souls, and offer an offering made by fire unto Yahweh."

32 "It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath."

39 "Also in the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when ye have gathered in the fruit of the land, ye shall keep a feast unto Yahweh seven days: on the first day shall be a sabbath, and on the eighth day shall be a sabbath."

NOTE:

In addition to the weekly Sabbath (verses 3,11,15-16) there were other Sabbaths. However, all but Pentecost (which floated because of the Omer Count) were fixed as regular Seventh Day Sabbaths and one of those (Trumpets) was fixed on the New Moon. There are many who discount these as "ceremonial Sabbaths" because they claim they have been "done away with" because they were not a part of the Ten Commandments. This stems from a misinterpretation of Colossians 2:16. However, since most of these were regular Seventh Day Sabbaths, they could not possibly have been abolished. And three of the Festivals (Trumpets, Atonement and Tabernacles), on which these particular Sabbaths fall, have still not be fulfilled so can hardly be "abolished". Those things which have been fulfilled are the animal sacrifices that pointed to Messiah.

Paul devotes the whole book of Galatians to the problem of circumcision, a part of the ceremonial law which has been abolished because it belonged to the Old Covenant and not the New.

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