On the contrary, it was the observance of the sabbath that was to distinguish Israel from the nations, much as circumcision also set them apart.17 But this is surely to miss the big picture. God’s covenant was made with Israel, as a means of bringing salvation into a lost world. And much that was given to Israel by way of revealing that covenant salvation was, indeed, temporary and ‘shadowy’. If there were no reference to the Sabbath prior to Moses, we might conclude, as Boice does, that the Sabbath