Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work.

Sabbath, n. A weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh.

The [Jewish] Sabbath was not intended to be simply a desert of prohibitions, but rather an oasis for moral restoration and seemly pleasure-one was to eat, drink, even be merry.

... it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

And he (Jesus) said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath.

... Which of you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull him out on the sabbath day?