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How the Sabbath was reinvented
Before Judah's fall, the Sabbath seems to have been a monthly full-moon festival tied to the temple. After 586 BCE, it was merged with a weekly day of rest.
A people without land can still share time.
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The older Covenant Code required rest every seventh day for servants and work animals too, one of history's most ambitious labor laws. Since scattered communities could keep the Sabbath anywhere, time became their shared homeland.
Bible reference: Exodus 23:12; Genesis 2:2
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 163–165
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