8884. Verses 8-11 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labour and do all your work; and the seventh day is a sabbath to Jehovah your God. You shall not do any work - you, nor your son, nor your daughter; your male slave, nor your female slave, nor your beast, nor your sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore Jehovah blessed the sabbath day, and sanctified it.

'Remember' means what is perpetually in the thoughts. 'The sabbath day' in the highest sense means the union of the Lord's Divine Itself and His Divine Human; in the internal sense it means the Divine Human joined to the heavens, and so means heaven and consequently the marriage of goodness and truth there. 'To keep it holy' means no violation in any way. 'Six days you shall labour and do all your work' means the conflict which comes before and is preparatory to that marriage. 'And the seventh day is a sabbath to Jehovah your God' means when good has been implanted, and so the marriage exists. 'You shall not do any work - you, nor your son, nor your daughter; your male slave, nor your female slave, nor your beast, nor your sojourner who is within your gates' means that at that time heaven and its blessedness are present in every single part of a person inwardly and outwardly. 'For in six days Jehovah made heaven and earth, and the sea' means regenerating and vivifying the things in the internal man and in the external. 'And all that is in them' means of all that are there. 'And rested on the seventh day' means that at that time peace and the good of love are present. 'Therefore Jehovah blessed the seventh day' means that at that time the heavenly marriage from the Lord exists. 'And sanctified it' means that in no way can it be violated.