{"id":4572,"date":"2024-05-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/reading-plan\/may-13\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T15:12:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T20:12:14","slug":"may-13","status":"publish","type":"reading-plan","link":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/reading-plan\/may-13\/","title":{"rendered":"May 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Insight from Exodus<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cYHWH tagged the Sabbath as the \u201csign\u201d (\u05d0\u05d5\u05b9\u05ea) of the Mosaic covenant, which suggests that the law was primary and fundamental rather than secondary and illustrative. We are told that the purpose of the covenant sign was that Israel might \u201cknow that I, the Lord, sanctify you\u201d (Ex. 31:13; cf. 31:17). In the Israelites\u2019 journey from Egyptian slavery to Mount Sinai, they learned that the Sabbath would test their obedience and nurture trust in YHWH as the great provider (16:4\u20135, 23\u201326). By not working one day a week and by trusting God to supply their daily bread, the people\u2019s keeping the Sabbath would result in their growth in holiness.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_crdt_document":""},"class_list":["post-4572","reading-plan","type-reading-plan","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan\/4572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reading-plan"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reading-plan"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handstotheplow.org\/om\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}