Keeping the Shabbat is important to G-d - Key Passages
Time & again G-d tells Israel that keeping the Shabbat is important to him. There are several passages that say that the Shabbat is holy to G-d. While the Shabbat may not be applicable for gentiles as a command, I like to keep this day as a day of rest from work out of joy and love for G-d. Exodus 16:23 So he said to them, That is what the Lord spoke, Tomorrow is a rest day, a holy Shabbat to the Lord . Bake whatever you wish to bake, and cook whatever you wish to cook, and all the rest leave over to keep until morning. Exodus 20:10 but the seventh day is a Shabbat to the Lord , your God ; you shall perform no labor, neither you, your son, your daughter, your manservant, your maidservant, your beast, nor your stranger who is in your cities. Exodus 20:11 For [in] six days the Lord made the heaven and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and He rested on the seventh day. Therefore, the Lord blessed the Shabbat day and sanctified it . Exodus 31:13 "And you, sp...