RE: [TruthTalk] Sabbath

[ShieldsFamily]

-----Original Message----- Why do you follow the traditional Catholic numbering of the Ten Commandments rather than the Jewish numbering?  According to Jewish writing, we are talking about the fourth commandment, are we not?  Yes, sorry. 4th is correct.     Izzy wrote: > Or you can't eat a handful of grain as you are > walking through a field. That's the kind of thing > legalists read into the "law".   The problem was not "eating" on Shabbat as one is walking through a field. In the Hebrew Scriptures, the Israelites were allowed to eat.  They simply were not allowed to pick the manna from off the ground on Shabbat.  They were to collect enough on the previous day to eat on Shabbat. Can you explain the difference between picking grain from the field and eating it versus picking up manna from the ground and eating it?  Are you sure that only a legalist would see the similarity? They were just picking grains off as they walked through, much like you would Pick up something off a plate of food. They weren’t out “gathering”.  It was legalistic nit-picking.