What Is Work? | Exodus 20:8-11
What Is Work? | Exodus 20:8-11 "Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work , but the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work , neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your animals, nor any foreigner residing in your towns. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. (Ex 20:8-11 NIV) WORK : melakah /mel-ä-KÄ/ Properly, deputyship, ministry; generally, employment (never servile) or work (abstract or concrete); also property (as the result of labor) The biblical use of this work involves ones occupation and business: Occupation, business Property Work (something done or made) Workmanship Service, use Public business: political, religious My takeaway: "Work" is not only "effort" and &quo