From the beginning, God has instructed prophets to teach the covenant people to honor the Sabbath day. God rested from His creative labors on the seventh day.1 This day was blessed and sanctified as a holy day.
The fourth commandment to Moses was to “remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.”2
Elder Bruce R. McConkie taught that “Sabbath observance was a sign between ancient Israel and their God whereby the chosen people might be known.”3 – Earl C. Tingey, “The Sabbath Day and Sunday Shopping,” Ensign (CR) May 1996