to its contemporaries.13 Everyone was created in God’s image and thus has intrinsic value. It also means that everyone represents God’s presence on earth. Such an awesome, even frightening, concept makes the biblical call to godly living all the more crucial: if we fail to reflect God’s nature on earth, no other created thing is left to answer that call. Only after his creation was “very good” did God rest from his work (2:2), though “rested” is a poor translation. The nuance of the verb shabat is