had never heard of the Sabbath before. This construction they force on the twenty-third verse: “And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said: To-morrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord,” etc. But we answer: Moses does not say or imply that this was the first time the Lord said the seventh day was holy. On the contrary, the drift of the whole narrative shows that the Lord was now, by Moses, referring the people to their former knowledge of the sanctity of the Sabbath as