Deuteronomy 5:12-15 Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD your God has commanded you.… Physical work promotes the circulation of the blood, opens the pores of the skin, gives tone to the respiratory organs, helps the functions of digestion, strengthens the muscles, adds suppleness to the joints, enlivens the senses, quickens the nerves, regulates the passions, and benevolently tends to build up the general constitution. Mental and moral work clears the understanding, empowers the will, keens the perception, awakens the conscience, informs the judgment, enlarges the memory, rectifies the affections. In one word, the tendency of work is to promote and sustain the mental and physical organisation in an uninterrupted action of health, until by the fiat of nature, or as the result of accident, or by the ravages of disease, it shall be broken up and dissolved in death. Man is kept in life by work, and dies either because he will not or because he cannot work. Parallel Verses KJV: Keep the sabbath day to sanctify it, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee.WEB: "Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Yahweh your God commanded you. |
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