over time we continued to ignore his way. God had to institute Sabbath law because humanity had failed to live the intent of God’s rest. The seventh day was the final creation act of God, a day of menukhah-rest. As days progress in Genesis 1 and 2, the story feels as though it is building toward something particularly special. This structure seems to offer a lesson, in Lesslie Newbigin’s words, “claiming to show the shape, the structure, the origin, and the goal not merely of human history, but of