The Sabbath was the seventh day and its selection was not determined by Israel but by God, for ‘in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it’, Exod.
17Waa calaamo weligeed ina dhex taal aniga iyo reer binu Israa'iil; waayo, Rabbigu lix maalmood buu ku sameeyey samada iyo dhulka, oo maalintii toddobaadna wuu nastay, wuuna qabowsaday.