Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work:
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God:
in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: Exodus 20:8-10
"Prof. Hutton Webster, of the
University of Nebraska, says:
"What began, however, as a pagan ordinance, ended as a Christian
regulation; and a long series of imperial decrees, during the fourth, fifth,
and sixth centuries, enjoined with increasing stringency abstinence from
labor on Sunday."—"Rest Days," pp. 1SS, S70." W.A. Spicer