Exo 31:14  Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that profaneth it shall surely be put to death; for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. ASV

Exo 31:14  Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. KJV

Exo 31:14  And you shall keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you; the profaners of it dying shall die; for everyone doing work in it, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of his people. LITV

Exo 31:14  You shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to you. Everyone that defiles it shall surely be put to death. For whoever does any work in it, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.  MKJV
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  I confess I have no idea how in the world Covenant Theologians and other sabbatarians "get around" this text of Scripture folks. For one thing, can anybody show anywhere in Scripture where a non-Jew was cut off from his people and put to death for defiling the sabbath?

Duh-h  yeah man; The Flood!

  In context God is speaking to Moses & the Israelites and no one else, and here he tells them that they... who they?... Moses and Israel, not "all mankind"... shall keep the Sabbath therefore, for it is holy to -you- Moses and Israel. And if you... who? .... Moses and Israel, do any work or even leave your house,....  Death! And notice a familiar word here... the word "surely". Now where did we see that word before?  Oh yeah... in Genesis when God told Adam.. "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt -surely- die." Same Hebrew word folks. And it makes one more very important appearance, here... "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not -surely- die:".  Same Hebrew word. Now follow closely; when modern-day sabbatarians desecrate the sabbath and are ~Not~ put to death, what message are they conveying? Simple. They are saying the exact same thing Satan said to Eve, "you will not -surely- die!" which was a direct contradiction to the Words of the Living God... of which God commands that man shall live by  ~Every~ one of His words.  So, unless sabbatarians can either show from Scripture that the sanction of the sabbath is somehow changed or rescinded, or else follow it and put people who defile the sabbath to death, then they are taking sides with Satan and denying the word of God.

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