These two passages from the Torah, or Five Books of Moses, address the Sabbath in two different ways. In the Book of Genesis, we see the first mention of the Sabbath in the Torah. The second passage, from Deuteronomy, details the practical aspects of Sabbath observance, namely prohibition of work.
The heaven and the earth were finished, and all their array.
On the seventh day God finished the work that He had been doing, and He ceased on the seventh day from all the work that He had done.
And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because on it God ceased from all the work of creation that He had done.
Observe the sabbath day and keep it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.
Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; you shall not do any work—you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your ox or your ass, or any of your cattle, or the stranger in your settlements, so that your male and female slave may rest as you do.
Sabbath: The 2017 Dorothy Saxe Invitational is organized by The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco. An endowed sponsorship for this exhibition was created by George Saxe, z”l, in honor of Dorothy R. Saxe. Major support has been provided by Phyllis Cook and Wendy Kesser. Supporting Sponsorship is provided by Robert and Judy Aptekar.
The Contemporary Jewish Museum thanks The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for its lead sponsorship of The Museum’s exhibition program.