Did Adam observe the Sabbath?

The Sabbath law was not given by God till he spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai. As far as I am aware, Genesis only says that after God finished creating, he entered into his "day" of rest, which "day" still continues.

It is often claimed that “God instituted the Sabbath in Eden” because of the connection between the Sabbath and creation in Exodus 20:11. Although God's rest on the seventh day (Genesis 2:3) did foreshadow a future Sabbath law, there is no biblical record of the Sabbath before the children of Israel left the land of Egypt. Nowhere in Scripture is there any hint that Sabbath-keeping was practiced from Adam to Moses.

The Word of God makes it quite clear that Sabbath observance was a special sign between God and Israel: “The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it for the generations to come as a lasting covenant. It will be a sign between me and the Israelites forever, for in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the seventh day he abstained from work and rested” (Exodus 31:16–17).

In Deuteronomy 5, Moses restates the Ten Commandments to the next generation of Israelites. Here, after commanding Sabbath observance in verses 12–14, Moses gives the reason the Sabbath was given to the nation Israel: “Remember that you were slaves in Egypt and that the Lord your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God has commanded you to observe the Sabbath day” (Deuteronomy 5:15).

God's intent for giving the Sabbath to Israel was not that they would remember creation, but that they would remember their Egyptian slavery and the Lord's deliverance. Note the requirements for Sabbath-keeping: A person placed under that Sabbath law could not leave his home on the Sabbath (Exodus 16:29), he could not build a fire (Exodus 35:3), and he could not cause anyone else to work (Deuteronomy 5:14). A person breaking the Sabbath law was to be put to death (Exodus 31:15; Numbers 15:32–35).

More information on the Sabbath in the link below.

LM

I would say most every day of the week was special when the Perfect Man Adam was in the Garden of Eden. We as Christians are no longer under the law. And, some people say it is Saturday while others will say Sunday. The important thing is that we observe the principles of the laws and thoes things that are obvious.

Rom. 7:6, 7: “Now we have been discharged from the Law, because we have died to that by which we were being held fast . . . What, then, shall we say? Is the Law sin? Never may that become so! Really I would not have come to know sin if it had not been for the Law; and, for example, I would not have known covetousness if the Law had not said: ‘You must not covet.’” (Here, immediately after writing that Jewish Christians had been “discharged from the Law,” what example from the Law does Paul cite? The Tenth Commandment, thus showing that it was included in the Law from which they had been discharged.)

After sin entered in, God cursed the land Adam was to work. "Through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you,and you will eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food..." And God made garments of skin to clothe Adam and Eve with - perhaps in view of sending them outside of Eden, where thorns and thistles would afflict them. - Genesis 3:17-19.

I mention this to show that the family of Adam would NEED to rest if they were not to burn out with the toil they laboured under. They lived for over 900 years to begin with, so they did not burn out. I think this speaks of them learning from the creation account, verbally transmitted, with its emphasis on six days of God working, then resting on the seventh day. No matter how you read that, there is something significant about a seven-day cycle with one day set aside for rest. The French Revolutionists tried to bring in a ten-day week, but it failed. We are designed by God to function on a seven-day cycle, and when one day is set aside for rest, we function far, far better than by ignoring that.

Notice that Cain and Abel knew the worth of sacrifice to God centuries before God made laws about it?

For the Jew in the OT the Sabbath was a day to call to mind two particular acts of God. The first was creation and the second was redemption. Ex 20:11 - For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them. Reinforced in Ex 31:16-17. Well, Adam and Eve knew that they needed to be redeemed, and that God had promised that in Genesis 3:15. They also knew more about creation than any other humans, having walked and talked with God in the Garden. I think their hearts would have yearned for restored fellowship with their Maker, and so the creation account with its emphasis on seven days, with one day of rest, would have meant a great deal to them.

So I cannot say that Adam did observe one day out of seven for rest, but I would be astonished if he did not. AiH

I assume so since Noah was told to bring clean animals for sacrifice

this is why I believe the Law of God was observed by those before it was given to Moses

and there was a time when the early people fell away from worship in Genesis where it says ''they began to call on the Name of the Lord"

but that came from some commentary i heard, so who really knows

How come each user has at least 5 thumbs down? Did someone with 5 accounts do that?

And how come i can even answer my own question? Does that mean i can pick my answer as best too?

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It really didn't say. But we're not sure.

The laws came after sin.

Possibly in the garden they didn't need the laws because they were once innocent.

John 1:17

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

Adam came before Moses.

The narrative shows that only God rested on that seventh day. God worked, God ceased from work.

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God Himself worked for six days and rested the seventh.

The order to keep the Sabbath was given to Moses. Check out how many years passed from The Creation to when Moses received those ten commandments.

Think about this and be edified.

The Sabbath was after Adam's time so it is safe to say that he did not observe it. Remember Adam lived for 990yrs the Sabbath was introduced at least 1,500+ yrs after Adam's death.

The word, Sabbath, is taken from the Hebrew sha·vath′, meaning “rest, cease, desist.” The sabbatical system prescribed in the Mosaic Law included a weekly Sabbath day, a number of additional specified days throughout each year, the seventh year, and the fiftieth year.

Jehovah God proceeded to rest as to his works of material, earthly creation after preparing the earth for human habitation. This is stated at Genesis 2:1-3. But nothing in the Bible record says that God directed Adam to keep the seventh day of each week as a sabbath.

Deut. 5:15: “You must remember that you [Israel] became a slave in the land of Egypt and Jehovah your God proceeded to bring you out from there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. That is why Jehovah your God commanded you to carry on the sabbath day.” (Here Jehovah connects his giving of the sabbath law with Israel’s deliverance from slavery in Egypt, not with events in Eden.)

If you stop and reason, it is easy to see what was expected of mankind when God said he was resting from HIS work. He had given mankind the assignment of subduing the earth. This would logically take time. So until man finished the work assigned, God patiently waited for it to conclude.

After the fall of man into sin, the sabbath took on an additional perspective. God called attention to his resting as something sacred. Thus the sabbath laws were given to Israel. Since the law code of Israel pictured a future time, what did the sabbath foreshadow?

There is “a sabbath resting” that Christians share in every day

Hebrews 4:4-11 says: “In one place [Genesis 2:2] he [God] has said of the seventh day as follows: ‘And God rested on the seventh day from all his works,’ and again in this place [Psalm 95:11]: ‘They shall not enter into my rest.’ Since, therefore, it remains for some to enter into it, and those to whom the good news was first declared did not enter in because of disobedience, he again marks off a certain day by saying after so long a time in David’s psalm [Psalm 95:7, 8] ‘Today’; just as it has been said above: ‘Today if you people listen to his own voice, do not harden your hearts.’ For if Joshua had led them into a place of rest, God would not afterward have spoken of another day. So there remains a sabbath resting for the people of God. For the man that has entered into God’s rest has also himself rested from his own works, just as God did from his own. Let us therefore do our utmost to enter into that rest, for fear anyone should fall in the same pattern of disobedience.”

From what are Christians here urged to rest? From their “own works.” What works? Works by means of which they formerly sought to prove themselves righteous. No longer do they believe that they can earn God’s approval and gain eternal life by complying with certain rules and observances. That was the error of faithless Jews who, by ‘seeking to establish their own righteousness, did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.’ (Rom. 10:3) True Christians recognize that all of us were born sinners and that it is only by faith in the sacrifice of Christ that anyone can have a righteous standing with God. They endeavor to take to heart and apply all the teachings of God’s Son. They humbly accept counsel and reproof from God’s Word. This does not mean that they think they can earn God’s approval in this way; instead, what they do is an expression of their love and faith. By such a course of life they avoid the “pattern of disobedience” of the Jewish nation.