How To Use Day of rest In A Sentence
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According to the Law of Moses, faithful Jews were expected to keep the Sabbath sacred as a day of rest.
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President Obama is not exploiting his children and he certainly isn't a dead-beat dad, he spends a good deal of his time and energy trying to solve this country's problems and work on foreign problems also, I do believe that there should be a day of rest to enjoy your family for someone who works as hard as he does.
Obama and daughters visit frozen custard shop
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I was recently reminded that the term sabbath has meanings more than a day of rest one day in seven.
On Theocracies « Whatever
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The first of Genesis' three creation narratives, Genesis 1:1 to 2:3, spans seven days from "the beginning" to the day of rest on which God "blesses" and "sanctifies" creation.
Genesis: A thrice-told tale
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And today, as evidenced by the drowsy street outside, was the day of rest.
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After a day of rest on middle Sunday another Wimbledon eccentricity, all 32 men and women remaining in the singles draws clamber back to the lawns, anxious and refreshed, to fight for a spot in the quarterfinals.
On Wimbledon's 'Second Monday,' Everyone in the Draw Has to Play
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The preacher, instead of vexing the ears of drowsy farmers on their day of rest at the end of the week — for Sunday is the fit conclusion of an ill-spent week, and not the fresh and brave beginning of a new one — with this one other draggle-tail of a sermon, should shout with thundering voice,
Walden
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But inasmuch as the recurrence of the _Sabbath-day_ was what constituted _a week_; in other words, since the essential feature of a week, as a Jewish division of time, was the recurrence of the Jewish day of rest; — τὸ σάββατον or τὰ σάββατα, the Hebrew name for _the day of rest_, became transferred to _the week_.
The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark
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As far as using it as a management technique to "give the deer a day of rest from us" as our "conservationist" friend suggests; Wouldn't lowering bag limits or shortening the season accomplish the same thing without eliminating one of the two days of the week that I can actually hunt?!?
West Virginia Eyes Saturday Start To Deer Season
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The manager of a dressmaking factory noted with amazement that her employees all took Sunday for a gala day and not as a day of rest.
A Renegade History of the United States
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But they won't give the Red Sox the virtual certainty of a solid outing and a day of rest for the bullpen that Martinez does.
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And today, as evidenced by the drowsy street outside, was the day of rest.
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This is the day of rest, the day we give the alliterated weekdays the shove and simply blog on something intelligent.
Archive 2008-06-01
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Not that they would always, or indeed generally, spend it improvingly, but it is their only day of rest.
Two Years Before the Mast
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The command to keep the Jewish Sabbath could then be taken metaphorically to refer to any day of rest, and because of the history and customs of this country, that day is Sunday, the Christian sabbath.
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Some bits I have passing familiarity with do not have organised religion - lots of localised deities, yes, but no festivals that I'd be certain of - while others are patchworked this religion and its festivals are predominant _here_, in the next village over a different calendar will be kept, and _that_ subgroup is celebrating something else entirely and has a different day of rest.
A year of festivities
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The chemo kills all the cells in his immune system, so they harvested stem cells from his hip bone and reinfuse them the day after his day of rest.
The Delphos Herald