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There is a physical kind and there is a spiritual kind.
The first kind of Sabbath rest was periodic, Exodus 34:
The second kind of Sabbath rest is quite different, Hebrew 4:
Strong's Hebrew: 4496. מְנוּחָה (menuchah or menuchah) — 22 Occurrences
Brown-Driver-Briggs:
See also Should we keep the weekly Sabbath?.
The first kind of Sabbath rest was periodic, Exodus 34:
Every Sabbath day (Friday sundown to Saturday sundown), the Israelites were commanded to cease physical labor.21 Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest you must rest.
The second kind of Sabbath rest is quite different, Hebrew 4:
It is a permanent spiritual resting state of being, Psalm 95:8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken of another day later on. 9So then, there remains a Sabbath rest for the people of God,
They knew the first kind of Sabbath rest. They practiced it every week. Yet,10 For forty years I loathed that generation and said, “They are a people who go astray in their heart, and they have not known my ways.”
But they did not attain the second kind of Sabbath rest.11 Therefore I swore in my wrath, “They shall not enter my rest [H4496].”
Strong's Hebrew: 4496. מְנוּחָה (menuchah or menuchah) — 22 Occurrences
Brown-Driver-Briggs:
H4496 can mean peace and rest. It is a state of being, Isaiah 28:1 resting-place …
2 rest (from enemies) = peace 1 Kings 8:56 (compare 1 Kings 5:18), ׳אִישׁ מ 1 Chronicles 22:9 a man of peace (compare הֵנִיחַ vb);
It was not a resting time.12 to whom he said, “This is the resting place,
Jeremiah 6:let the weary rest"; and, “This is the place of repose"— but they would not listen.
Jesus spoke in Matthew 11:16 This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But you said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
The physical Sabbath rest is only a type of the spiritual true type of Sabbath rest. We come to the true Sabbath peace and rest by coming to Jesus.28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest."
See also Should we keep the weekly Sabbath?.