And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have an holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing the trumpets unto you.
The phrase “servile work” repeats throughout this chapter. The Strong’s dictionary has this as a double emphasis “do no work work.” According to Strong’s dictionary, the Hebrew word for servile is work of any kind. The context, I am sure, means that sort of work that is employment. Service work. Work that produces income or livelihood.
I know there is the case of the man picking up sticks on the Sabbath.
Numbers 15:32 (KJV)
And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
I wonder if he might have been doing it to sell rather than just caring for his family?
Jesus made it very clear, and the Jews had long established by the time of Christ, that some forms of work were not to be considered servile work. It was perfectly acceptable, for instance,
To rescue an animal on the Sabbath.
Matthew 12:11 (KJV)
And he said unto them, What man shall there be among you, that shall have one sheep, and if it fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?
Do ministry on the Sabbath
Matthew 12:5 (KJV)
Or have ye not read in the law, how that on the sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?
For Jesus to heal on the Sabbath
Matthew 12:10 (KJV)
And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
Jesus applied that to doing well on the Sabbath
Matthew 12:12 (KJV)
How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.
Though they were not to gather manna on the Sabbath, the manna that had been collected the day before would have to be prepared and served on the Sabbath.
Everyone needs a day of rest, both for the sake of the body and for the sake of worship. But that day of rest must not be legalistically taken to mean that nothing, at all, may be done on that day.
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