What Is Sabbath in the Bible?
Feast
For the Jewish people, the holy day of rest, dedicated to God. It begins on Friday at sundown.
A detail
- For Christians: the Lord’s Day is Sunday, because Jesus rose on a Sunday.
Where it appears in the Bible
Exodus 20:8-11; Mark 2:27
What the Bible says
Exodus 20:8-11
8Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day. 9Six days shalt thou labour, and shalt do all thy works. 10But on the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work on it, thou nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy beast, nor the stranger that is within thy gates. 11For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them, and rested on the seventh day: therefore the Lord blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it.
Mark 2:27
And he said to them: The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Catechism 2168-2173 and 2175