In particular, God’s people were not to do any work on the *Sabbath. This copied God’s own decision not to work on the day after he had created the world (see Genesis 2:2 and Exodus 20:8-11).

• The first Christians replaced the *Sabbath (Saturday) by Sunday, the first day of the week. This was to mark the new situation that the *resurrection of Jesus had brought about (see Matthew 28:1; Acts 20:7 and 1 Corinthians 16:2).

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