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And the mal’akh of the Presence spoke to Mosheh according to the word of Yahuah, saying:
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Write the complete history of the creation, how in six days Yahuah Elohim finished all His works and all that He created, and kept Shabbat on the seventh day and set apart it for all ages, and appointed it as a sign for all His works.
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For on the first day He created the heavens which are above and the earth and the waters and all the spirits which serve before Him
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--the mal’akhiym of the Presence, and the mal’akhiym of sanctification, and the mal’akhiym [of the spirit of fire and the mal’akhiym] of the spirit of the winds, and the mal’akhiym of the spirit of the clouds,
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and of darkness, and of snow and of hail and of hoar frost, and the mal’akhiym of the voices and of the thunder and of the lightning, and the mal’akhiym of the spirits of cold and of heat, and of winter and of spring and of autumn and of summer,
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and of all the spirits of His creatures which are in the heavens and on the earth, (He created) the abysses and the darkness, eventide (and night), and the light, dawn and day, which He has prepared in the knowledge of His heart.
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And thereupon we saw His works, and praised Him, and lauded before Him on account of all His works; for seven great works did He create on the first day.
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And on the second day He created the firmament in the midst of the waters, and the waters were divided on that day--half of them went up above and half of them went down below the firmament (that was) in the midst over the face of the whole earth.
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And this was the only work (Elohim) created on the second day.
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And on the third day He commanded the waters to pass from off the face of the whole earth into one place, and the dry land to appear.
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And the waters did so as He commanded them, and they retired from off the face of the earth into one place outside of this firmament, and the dry land appeared.
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And on that day He created for them all the seas according to their separate gathering-places, and all the rivers, and the gatherings of the waters in the mountains and on all the earth,
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and all the lakes, and all the dew of the earth, and the seed which is sown, and all sprouting things, and fruit-bearing trees, and trees of the wood, and the garden of Eden, in Eden, and all (plants after their kind).
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These four great works Elohim created on the third day.
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And on the fourth day He created the sun and the moon and the stars, and set them in the firmament of the heaven, to give light upon all the earth,
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and to rule over the day and the night, and divide the light from the darkness.
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And Elohim appointed the sun to be a great sign on the earth for days and for Shabbats and for months and for feasts and for years and for Shabbats of years and for jubilees and for all seasons of the years.
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And it divids the light from the darkness [and] for prosperity, that all things may prosper which shoot and grow on the earth.
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These three kinds He made on the fourth day.
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And on the fifth day He created great sea monsters in the depths of the waters, for these were the first things of flesh that were created by His hands, the fish and everything that moves in the waters, and everything that flies, the birds and all their kind.
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And the sun rose above them to prosper (them), and above everything that was on the earth, everything that shoots out of the earth, and all fruit-bearing trees, and all flesh.
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These three kinds He created on the fifth day.
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And on the sixth day He created all the animals of the earth, and all cattle, and everything that moves on the earth.
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And after all this He created man, a man and a woman created He them,
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and gave him dominion over all that is upon the earth, and in the seas, and over everything that flies, and over beasts and over cattle, and over everything that moves on the earth, and over the whole earth, and over all this He gave him dominion.
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And these four kinds He created on the sixth day. And there were altogether two and twenty kinds.
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And He finished all His work on the sixth day--all that is in the heavens and on the earth, and in the seas and in the abysses, and in the light and in the darkness, and in everything.
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And He gave us a great sign, the Shabbat day, that we should work six days, but keep Shabbat on the seventh day from all work. And all the mal’akhiym of the Presence, and all the mal’akhiym of sanctification,
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these two great classes--He has hidden us to keep the Shabbat with Him in heaven and on earth.
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And He said to us: "Behold, I will separate to Myself a people from among all the peoples, and these will keep the Shabbat day,
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and I will sanctify them to Myself as My people, and will bless them; as I have sanctified the Shabbat day and do sanctify (it) to Myself, even so shall I bless them, and they will be My people and I shall be their Elohim.
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And I have chosen the seed of Ya’aqov from among all that I have seen, and have written him down as My firstborn son, and have sanctified him to Myself for ever and ever;
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and I will teach them the Shabbat day, that they may keep Shabbat on it from all work."...
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And thus He created in it a sign in accordance with which they should keep Shabbat with us on the seventh day, to eat and to drink, and to bless Him who has created all things
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as He has blessed and sanctified to Himself a peculiar people above all peoples, and that they should keep Shabbat together with us.
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And He caused His commands to ascend as a sweet savour acceptable before Him all the days. There (were) two and twenty heads of mankind from Adam to Ya’aqov,
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and two and twenty kinds of work were made until the seventh day;
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this is blessed and set-apart; and the former also is blessed and set-apart;
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and this one serves with that one for sanctification and blessing.
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And to this (Ya’aqov and his seed) it was granted that they should always be the blessed and set-apart ones of the first testimony and law, even as He had sanctified and blessed the Shabbat day on the seventh day.
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He created heaven and earth and everything that He created in six days, and Elohim made the seventh day set-apart, for all His works;
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therefore He commanded on its behalf that, whoever does any work on it shall die, and that he who defils it shall surely die.
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Wherefore do you command the children of Yis’rael to observe this day that they may keep it set-apart and not do on it any work, and not to defile it,
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as it is holier than all other days. And whoever profans it shall surely die, and whoever does on it any work shall surely die eternally,
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that the children of Yis’rael may observe this day throughout their generations, and not be rooted out of the land;
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for it is a set-apart day and a blessed day. And every one who observs it and keeps Shabbat on it from all his work, will be set-apart and blessed throughout all days like to us.
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Declare and say to the children of Yis’rael the Torah of this day both that they should keep Shabbat on it, and that they should not forsake it in the error of their hearts;
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(and) that it is not lawful to do any work on it which is unseemly, to do on it their own pleasure, and that they should not prepare on it anything to be eaten or drunk.
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and (that it is not lawful) to draw water, or bring in or take out on it through their gates any burden, which they had not prepared for themselves on the sixth day in their dwellings.
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And they shall not bring in nor take out from house to house on that day; for that day is more set-apart and blessed than any jubilee day of the jubilees:
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on this we kept Shabbat in the heavens before it was made known to any flesh to keep Shabbat on it on the earth.
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And the Creator of all things blessed it, but He did not sanctify all peoples and nations to keep Shabbat on it, but Yis’rael alone:
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them alone He permitted to eat and drink and to keep Shabbat on it on the earth.
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And the Creator of all things blessed this day which He had created for a blessing and a sanctification and a glory above all days.
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This Torah and testimony was given to the children of Yis’rael as a law for ever to their generations.