Translations:Is there a "two tables" division in the Ten Commandments?/17/en

The phrase “you shall remember that you were a servant” is critical to understanding the Sabbath. This is because there is not just one (weekly) Sabbath rest, but several Sabbath “rests” are commanded in scripture. These include a release from debt repayment (Deut. 15:2), a “rest” for the land (Lev. 25:3-5) -- which includes allowing the poor, widows, and foreigners to gather from it (Ex. 23:10-12) -- , and “rest” from servitude (Deut. 15:12-15). All of these laws relate to God's opposition to slavery, the condition that he saved his people from. If only Christian teachers had paid more attention to these aspects of the Sabbath, Christians might have corrected (or even prevented) many of the historical injustices around the issue of slavery.