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To: truedog who wrote (55069)	7/1/1999 2:29:00 PM
From: Achilles	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

How did the Hebrews know which day was going to be the day of rest? Don't know. Presumably they assumed that they day that they did celebrate was established by Moses after being revealed to him by God. Does it really matter which day? The trouble-maker might ask why one out of seven? Why not two out of seven, like we enjoy now. (I guess we have outdone the original rule, eh? If one day is good, two must be better.) And why seven? Why not, say, an 8-day cycle, as the Romans had? The Hebrews, however, certainly thought it mattered which day was celebrated, as did Christians, Jews, and Muslims later. The original question is whether the ten commandments were applicable to the Chinese. I brought up the fourth because I think it illustrates some of the difficulties in such approaches.