Neville Goddard on Exodus 31:16-17 - Mystical Bible Interpretation

Read Exodus 31 in context

Scripture Focus

16Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

17It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

Exodus 31:16-17

Biblical Context

The verse commands the Sabbath as a perpetual covenant. It ties the rest of creation to a sign between God and Israel.

Neville's Inner Vision

In the sight of the I AM, the Sabbath is not a calendar ritual but the moment when consciousness rests in its own creative order. The six days of activity are the active imagining of heaven and earth; the seventh day is the inner rest where the mind stops, opens, and refreshes in the awareness that God is All. The sign between me and the children of Israel becomes a sign within you: a lifestyle of unwavering attention to the one divine Presence, wherein your thoughts cease from toil and align with eternal order. When you feel the I AM as your very breath and horizon, you experience the perpetual covenant as now: you rest in the truth that you are the creation by which the Creator expresses itself. Imagination, rightly used, completes the six days and invites the seventh into your experience as constant renewal.

Practice This Now

Practice: close your eyes and assume, with feeling, that you already keep the Sabbath in your inner life. Rest in the I AM, and imagine yourself refreshed, aligned with divine order; repeat the inner declaration, 'I am at rest in God' until it feels real.