12-THE WORD "REST" IN EX. 5: 5 by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 8, 1914

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 41, No. 35.

12—THE WORD "REST" IN EX. 5: 5

By Editor

There is one translation of the Bible that uses the word "Sabbatize" instead of "rest" in Ex. 5: 5. Can you tell me the name of this translation? Is it in English?

We know of no translation which so renders. We have half a dozen or more at hand, but all of them give the English word "rest" or "cease." The Hebrew word, however, is Shabbath, the root from which "Sabbath" comes; and the thought of the word seems clearly to be, to Sabbatize, or observe the Sabbath. It is rendered "rested" in Gen. 2: 2, 3; Ex. 16: 30; 31: 17; and "rest" in Ex. 23: 12; 34: 21; and in Lev. 26: 34, 35. It is rendered "Sabbath" in 2 Chron. 36: 21. The teaching of Moses brought the minds of Israel back to the Sabbath. Of this Pharaoh complained.