31:12-38

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The weekly day of rest

(Ex 31:12-18)

People might have thought that, because the tabernacle was a sacred structure, they could work on it on the Sabbath day. God reminded them to keep the weekly Sabbath as a holy day of rest.

This rest was part of God’s plan for preserving the holiness of his people (Ex 31:12-17).

God then gave Moses the ten basic commandments of the covenant engraved on stone as he had promised (see Ex 24:12; cf. Deut 10:4).

Having received God’s instructions for his people, Moses went down from the mountain to put them into practice (Ex 31:18).