8在出埃及三十一章十二至十七节我们看见，建造帐幕的人受了嘱咐，不可以开始作工，直到他们与主一同安息，并得着舒畅。然后他们才能为祂作工，并与祂同工。然而，这工作不会继续不断地进行；反之，这工作乃是以六日劳苦和一日安息为一段。每一段的开始是安息日，接着工作六天；然后是另一段，以安息开始，接着是工作。……我们已经强调过，安息日对神而言是第七日，对人而言是第一日；神作工，使人享受并安息；人享受神工作上所成就的，为要与神同工。人在第一日享受神在前六日所成就的。以下六天，人就与神同工。工作六天以后，人又一次先享受神所成就的，接着再工作六天。这就像一个循环一直进行，这循环就是我们与神是一的记号（出埃及记生命读经，二○九○至二○九一、二○九八页）。
8In Exodus 31:12-17 we see that the builders of the tabernacle were charged not to begin working until they had rested with Jehovah and had been refreshed. Then they could work for Him and with Him. However, this work would not go on continuously. Rather, it would be a work in intervals of six days of labor and one day of rest. With every interval, the beginning is a day of rest, followed by six days of work. Then there would be another interval beginning with rest and continuing with work. We have emphasized that to God the Sabbath is the seventh day and to man, the first day; that God worked for man’s enjoyment and rest; and that man enjoys what God has accomplished in His work in order to work with God. Man in his first day enjoyed what God accomplished in the previous six days. Then in the following six days man worked with God. After six days’ work, man again first enjoyed what God had accomplished, and then he worked again the following six days. This proceeds as a cycle. This cycle is a sign that we are one with God. (Life-study of Exodus, 2nd ed., pp. 1760, 1766)