keeps covenant (Gen 9:12–17). Similarly, Israel doesn’t keep Sabbath merely by recalling it to mind. Israel does something—nothing—on Sabbath to memorialize creation, as an enacted “reminder” to Yahweh to bring creation to fulfillment in a final Sabbath. Israel memorializes the day by ceasing (shabat). Work is good. Human dominion over the world is good. But God requires that we “interrupt” our work to acknowledge him as Lord,61 as a public confession that our authority over creation is a derived