Thank you, Clefty.
Why? Why did they need to use three days to celebrate?
“And Moses said, “It is not right to do so, for we would be sacrificing athe abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God. If we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, then will they not stone us?”
You do realize taking a group as large as they were would take one day in...do the sacrifice and one day back yes?
I mean they did have to go far enough as to not provoke the Egyptians for killing their god...
Come, and let us return unto the LORD:
for He hath torn, and He will heal us;
He hath smitten, and He will bind us up.
After two days will He revive us:
in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight.
Hosea 6:1-2
Yes because it was not a weekly Sabbath but came on the 10 day of the seventh month...as a yearly “your sabbath” vs weekly “My Sabbath”...and it began its afflicting the evening of the 9th...
Still a 24 hour two day event...
Concerning the feasts of the LORD,
which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations,
even these are My feasts.
Six days shall work be done:
but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation;
ye shall do no work therein:
it is the sabbath of the LORD in all your dwellings.
These are the feasts of the LORD,
even holy convocations,
which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
Leviticus 23:2-4
A day to the Lord could be as a thousand years to us,
but I suggest we not leave it that long before we proclaim our next sabbath.
If you are tired of the world, or of life, and if you feel overcome,
then I suggest you need a rest, and some refreshment from the Lord.
In the New Testament, making a sabbath is called praying.
So pretty much all Christians make sabbaths / sacrifice to the Lord / offer themself up, one way or another,
unfortunately not many are bothering to check in the law, to see how God said to do it. And their ears are inclined to their fellows.
Ye shall do no servile work therein:
but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Leviticus 23:25