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¹⁶The first day shall be holy and solemn, and the seventh day shall be venerated with the same festivity. You shall do no work in these days, except that which pertains to the eating.

⁸Remember that you are to sanctify the day of the Sabbath. ⁹For six days, you will work and accomplish all your tasks. ¹⁰But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. You shall not do any work in it: you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, your beast and the newcomer who is within your gates. ¹¹For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and the sea, and all the things that are in them, and so he rested on the seventh day. For this reason, the Lord has blessed the day of the Sabbath and sanctified it.

²On the first day of the week, the Sabbath, let each one of you take from himself, setting aside what will be well-pleasing to him, so that when I arrive, the collections will not have to be made then.

⁷Then, on the first Sabbath, when we had assembled together to break bread, Paul discoursed with them, intending to set out the next day. But he prolonged his sermon into the middle of the night. The expression “first Sabbath” refers to Easter Sunday, the commemoration of the first Christian Sabbath. In the year in question, Easter Sunday was celebrated some 12 (5 + 7) days or more after “the days of Unleavened Bread”, which refers to Passover. It is unclear how Easter Sunday was calculated at that early time in the Church, but it did not always coincide with Passover.

¹Then on the first Sabbath, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and she saw that the stone had been rolled away from the tomb. ²Therefore, she ran and went to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and she said to them, “They have taken the Lord away from the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” ³Therefore, Peter departed with the other disciple, and they went to the tomb. ⁴Now they both ran together, but the other disciple ran more quickly, ahead of Peter, and so he arrived at the tomb first. ⁵And when he bowed down, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not yet enter. ⁶Then Simon Peter arrived, following him, and he entered the tomb, and he saw the linen cloths lying there,

¹Then, on the first Sabbath, at very first light, they went to the tomb, carrying the aromatic spices that they had prepared. ²And they found the stone rolled back from the tomb. ³And upon entering, they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. ⁴And it happened that, while their minds were still confused about this, behold, two men stood beside them, in shining apparel. ⁵Then, since they were afraid and were turning their faces toward the ground, these two said to them: “Why do you seek the living with the dead? ⁶He is not here, for he has risen. Recall how he spoke to you, when he was still in Galilee,

²For six days you shall do work; the seventh day, the Sabbath and the rest of the Lord, will be holy to you; whoever will have done any work in it shall be killed.

¹In the beginning, God created heaven and earth. ²But the earth was empty and unoccupied, and darknesses were over the face of the abyss; and so the Spirit of God was brought over the waters. ³And God said, “Let there be light.” And light became. ⁴And God saw the light, that it was good; and so he divided the light from the darknesses. ⁵And he called the light, ‘Day,’ and the darknesses, ‘Night.’ And it became evening and morning, one day. ⁶God also said, “Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide waters from waters.”

¹Alleluia. Praise the Lord in his holy places. Praise him in the firmament of his power. ²Praise him for his virtues. Praise him according to the multitude of his greatness. ³Praise him with the sound of the trumpet. Praise him with psaltery and stringed instrument. ⁴Praise him with timbrel and choir. Praise him with strings and organ. ⁵Praise him with sweet-sounding cymbals. Praise him with cymbals of jubilation. ⁶Let every spirit praise the Lord. Alleluia.

¹⁶Therefore, let no one judge you as concerns food or drink, or a particular feast day, or feast days of new moons, or of Sabbaths. ¹⁷For these are a shadow of the future, but the body is of Christ.

¹Now on the morning of the Sabbath, when it began to grow light on the first Sabbath, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the sepulcher.

⁹But he, rising early on the first Sabbath, appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.