[374]  Exodus 20:9-10:  The regular Sabbath's rest of Exodus 20:9-10 and Deuteronomy 5 :13-14 is from prescribed work hk'al'm. not from personal work Tk.al;m

Gen 2:2 And on the 7th day God completed His work Tk.al;m. which He had made. And He rested on the 7th day from all His work Tk.al;m. which He had made.
Gen 2:3 And God blessed the 7th day and sanctified it, because He rested from all His work Tk.al;m. on it, which God had created to make (GLT).

Regular Sabbath

Exo 20:9: 6 days you shall labor and do all your work Tk.al;m.
Exo 20:10: And the 7th day [is] a sabbath to Jehovah your God; you shall not do any work hk'al'm., you, and your son, and your daughter, your male slave and your slave-girl, and your livestock, and your stranger who [is] in your gates (GLT).
Deu 5:13: 6 days you shall labour, and shall do all your work Tk.al;m.
Deu 5:14: And the 7th day [shall be] a sabbath to Jehovah your God. You shall not do any work hk'al'm, you nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male slave, nor your female slave, nor your ox, nor your ass, nor any of your livestock, nor your stranger that [is] within your gates; so that your male slave and your female slave may rest like yourself (GLT).

Great Sabbath

Lev 23:3: Work hk'al'm is to be done six days, and in the seventh day [shall be] a sabbath of a great Sabbath, a holy gathering; you shall do no work hk'al'm; it [is] a sabbath to Jehovah in all your dwellings (GLT adapted from the Hebrew).
Num 31:14: And you shall keep the Sabbath, for it [is] holy for you; the profaners of it dying shall die; for everyone doing work hk'al'm. in it, that soul shall be cut off from the midst of his people.
Num 31:15: Work hk'al'm. may be done six days, and on the seventh day [is] a sabbath of a great Sabbath, holy to Jehovah; everyone doing work hk'al'm. on the Sabbath day dying shall die (GLT adapted from the Hebrew).

Atonement day Sabbath

Lev 23:28: And you shall do no work hk'al'm in this same day, for it [is] a day of atonement, to atone for you before Jehovah your God.
Lev 23:30: And any person who does any work hk'al'm in this same day, I shall even destroy that person from the midst of his people.
Lev 23:31: You shall do no work hk'al'm; [it is] a never ending statute throughout your generations, in all your dwellings.

This pattach-sheva pointing rather than the qametz-qametz pointing is due to the suffix. Adding the suffix changes the pointing of the Kaph and the Lamed. This is not a pausal/connected speech distinction. It is a suffixed/non suffixed distinction. But there but also be a distinction in meaning which is indicated by the two witnesses to a vowel pointing change. If every jot and tiddle is to be fulfilled and we two jot and tiddle changes (for whatever reason), then we have 2 witnesses to a different meaning. God's weekly work and man's weekly work is suffixed and man's prohibited work is not suffixed for a standard Sabbath. 

Mat 5:18 for truly I say to you that sooner would heaven and earth pass away than for one smallest letter or one particle of a letter to pass away from the Law by any means and not all things take place. (NWT)
Luk 16:17 Indeed, it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one particle of a letter of the Law to go unfulfilled. (NWT)

So during the 6 days you serve and do work of you and on the 7th you do no unsuffixed work but you can still serve (God and your slave master by doing what he says - which is not working). 

So there is a sense in which you serve and do work of you on the Sabbath. The work of you in the week is the work you have or choose to do. The work of you that you can do on a Sabbath is work for you that you might do and the service is to serve God directly. You cannot serve your church or your priest by submitting research or by proactive evangelism on the Sabbath and you cannot serve Satan/moneybusiness on the Sabbath.

The wood collector of Numbers 15:32-36

32 While the sons of Israel were continuing in the wilderness, they once found a man collecting pieces of wood on the sabbath day.
33 Then those who found him collecting pieces of wood brought him up to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly.
34 So they committed him into custody, because it had not been distinctly stated what should be done to him.
35 In time Jehovah said to Moses: Without fail the man should be put to death, the whole assembly pelting him with stones outside the camp.
36 Accordingly the whole assembly brought him forth outside the camp and pelted him with stones so that he died, just as Jehovah had commanded Moses. (Numbers 15 NWT)

Since he picked up a Hebrew plural of pieces of wood, he gave 3 witnesses to wood collection. The question presumably was: Did he pick up wood for his own purposes, for himself, which is permitted on a Sabbath. Or did he have a wood selling, timber selling, carpentry business, in which case it was not permitted. He could also have argued that although he had a timber business, he was not actually doing that business, he was preparing to do that business. So he was on the line and the line judge had to be consulted. So there was a line. The work prohibted was not all work, or there would have been no line and Moses would have knwon precisely what to do with him. The point is that there are typoes of wokr, indeed types of wood gathering work, which are permitted on the regular Sabbath. That is why God had to be consulted.

Great Sabbaths and Atonement day and Sabbath microregulation

These great and greatest Sabbaths re likewsuie Sabbaths from [prescribed work by a wnd party not from personal work. so if you example one wished to build a boat for onw'a qon personal recreation. One could actually do that on Atonement day. So long as one did not then sell the boat. This solves the problem of LW Atonement day paralysis, Where we mope around all day too scared to brush our teeth or move a chair in case God wipes us out. We cannot do work offered us by someone else excepting God is the correct of all Sabbaths view we now understand.

God's Sabbath

From 3993Nisan14 BC, when Adam sinned and paid for his sin in death and the Angelic Ransom Covenant was made between Jehovah and Michael (a busy day), God was on the creative Sabbath of his 26,060.6060 year long 7th creative day. So he rested from all of his creative works. But he continued working for Jesus said:

Act 19:11 And God did uncommon works of power through the hands of Paul, (GLT, YLT, NWT)

Why does the vowel pointing change so much when a pronomial suffix is added?

Gordon: Why does the suffix change the vowel pointing on the Kaph and the Lamed?

ChatGPT: Good question. The changes in hk'al'm. → Tk.al;m. are part of a broader pattern in Biblical Hebrew when suffixes are attached to nouns.

Let's look at the two changes separately.

### 1. Why does the qametz under the כ disappear?

The absolute form is:

hk'al'm. (məlāʾkhāh)

When a suffix is added, the final letter and final vowel pointing are replaced by the older feminine ending t

Tk.al;m (məlāʾkhat), the suffixed stem.

Once t appears, the final syllable is no longer khāh but khat. The stress shifts toward the suffix (-tô), and the formerly stressed qametz under Kaph loses its position. The vowel is reduced, yielding:

Tk.al'm. (malakhtô).

So the qametz on Kaph is not simply "changed"; the syllable structure of the word has changed because the feminine ending has reverted to -t.

### 2. Why does the vowel associated with the Lamed change?

Because the stress moves and the word becomes longer, the long vowel ā in the open pretonic syllable is often shortened to a. Thus:

hk'al'm. (məlāʾkhāh)
Tk.al'm. (məlakhtô)

This shortening of long vowels in construct and suffixed forms is extremely common.

Compare the similar pair:

Thk'r"B. → tk'r.Bi (bərākhāh → birkhātô)

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