Rest and Sabbath

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Rest noun - Freedom from activity or labor.

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Sabbath and rest are semantically related. In some cases you can replace term "Sabbath" with "Rest", this nouns are similar.

Nearby Words: restless, rested, restive, resting, restful

Sabbath noun - A day of rest and worship: Sunday for most Christians; Saturday for the Jews and a few Christians; Friday for Muslims.

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Rest and sabbath are semantically related. You can use "Rest" instead a noun "Sabbath".

Nearby Words: sabbatical, sabbat

As such, slaves were actually required to rest on the Sabbath and High Sabbaths, and a slave's duty to his master was not permitted to interfere with his duties to God.

Source: Artistic License Traditional Christianity
For example, at one point Jesus is accused of violating the ban on working on the Sabbath by healing someone; Jesus explains that while the Sabbath is a day of rest, it is never against God's law to help another person or to show mercy to them.

Source: God Never Said That
This even applies to the draconian penalties up to death for violating the Sabbath, as absurd as they sound, they were mostly to get the idea across that allowing everyone a day of rest was Serious Business and NO ONE was going to deny this.

Source: Fair for Its Day

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