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The True Sabbath Found in the Languages of World.

More about Dr. William Meade Jones

Dr. William Meade Jones lived over a hundred and fifty years ago, and was a well-known London, England, research expert. He discovered in his studies that the Seventh-day Sabbath was the only weekly Sabbath ever commanded by God in the Bible.

Jones decided that, since Scripture clearly shows that the Bible Sabbath was first given to mankind at the end of the Creation Week, (Genesis 2:1-3) then two important facts would have had to be known throughout the ancient world: First, a fixing of the seven-day weekly cycle on a world-wide basis, and second, an ancient world-wide knowledge of the Seventh-day Sabbath.

Jones was convinced of this for several reasons:
1. Adam and Noah were earnest worshipers of God and were faithful Sabbath keepers. (Genesis 6:9,7:5)
2. They would have taught their descendents about the Bible Sabbath, and its sacredness.
3. The truth that God is to be worshiped on the seventh of each seven-day week, requires a seven-day week, even though they may have later turned to idols and left the worship of the True God.
4. As the descendents of Adam and Noah spread out all over the world, they would have carried with them the seven day week, and the seventh day holy Sabbath given by God to mankind.

Many of Adam's and Noah's descendents became scoffers, however Jones reasoned, that they would still carry with them the twin truths of the Creation Week, of Genesis 1 by their keeping of the seven-day weekly cycle, and the Seventh-day Sabbath by naming the seventh day of the week in their language as the day of Sabbath rest.

William Mead Jones decided to research a majority of the languages of the world to see if his reasonings were true. The results of his research was as he suspected and is another powerful proof, not only that the Seventh day is the true Sabbath of God, but also that the creation account in Genesis 1 and 2 is accurate, and that God is our Creator!

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Chart of the Week (Showing the position of the true Sabbath)

LANGUAGE (Where Spoken, Read, or Otherwise Used)	1	2	3	4	5	6	Name of the SEVENTH DAY
Shemitic Hebrew Bible world-wide	Day One	Day Second	Day Third	Day Fourth	Day Fifth	Day the Sixth	Yom hash-shab-bath Day the Sabbath
Hebrew (Ancient and Modern)	One into the Sabbath	Second into the Sabbath	Third into the Sabbath	Fourth into the Sabbath	Fifth into the Sabbath	Eve of Holy Sabbath	Shab-bath Sabbath
Targum of Onkelos (Hebrew Literature)	Day One	Day Second	Day Third	Day Fourth	Day Fifth	Day the Sixth	Yom hash-shab-bath Day the Sabbath
Targum Dialect of the Jews in Kurdistan	Day One of the Seven	Day 2nd of the Seven	Day 3rd of the Seven	Day 4th of the Seven	Day 5th of the Seven	Day of Eve (of Sabbath)	yoy-met sha-bat kodesh Holy Sabbath Day
Ancient Syriac *Each day proceeds on, and belongs to the Sabbath	One into Sabbath	Two into Sabbath	Three into Sabbath	Four into Sabbath	Five into Sabbath	Eve (of Sabbath)	Shab-ba-tho Sabbath
Chaldee Syriac Kurdistan and Urdmia, Persia	One into Sabbath	Two into Sabbath	Three into Sabbath	Four into Sabbath	Five into Sabbath	Eve (of Sabbath)	Shap-ta Sabbath
Samaritan (Old Hebrew Letters) Nablus, Palestine	Day One	Day Second	Day Third	Day Fourth	Day Fifth	Day Sixth	Shab-bath Sabbath
Babylonian Euphrates & Tigris Valleys Mesopotamia (Written lang. 3800 B.C.)	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Sixth	Sa-ba-tu Sabbath
Assyrian Euphrates and Tigris Valleys, Mesopotamia	First	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Sixth	sa-ba-tu Sabbath
Arabic (Very old names)	Business Day	Light Moon	War Chief	Turning Day or Midweek	Familiar or Society Day	Eve (of Sabbath)	Shi-yar Chief or Rejoicing Day
Arabic (Ancient and Modern) Westn. Asia, E,W & N. Africa	The One	The Two	The Three	The Four	The Fifth	Assembly (day, Muham)	as-sabt The Sabbath
Maltese, Malta	One (day)	Two (and day)	The 3 (3rd d.)	The 4 (4th d.)	Fifth (day)	Assembly	Is-sibt. The Sabbath
Ge-ez or Ethiopic Abyssinia (Ge-ez signifies "original")	One (day)	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Eve (of Sabbath)	san-bat Sabbath
Tigre Abyssinia (Closely related to Ge-ez)	One (First day)	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Eve (of Sabbath)	san-bat Sabbath
Amharic, Abyssinia (Nearly related to Ge-ez)	One	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Eve (of Sabbath)	san-bat Sabbath
Falasha (Language of the Jews of Abyssinia)	One	Second	Third	Fourth	Fifth	Sixth	yini sanbat The Sabbath
Coptic / Egypt (A dead lang. for 200 years)	The First Day	The 2nd Day	The 3rd Day	The 4th Day	The 5th Day	The 6th Day	pi sabbaton The Sabbath
Orma or Galla South of Abyssinia (This language has two sets of names, the first being the oldest)	Lady, Virgin Mary Day. Great or Festival Sabbath	Second day. First Trade Day	3rd Day to the Sabbath. Second Trade Day	4th day to the Sabbath. Fourth (day)	Fifth (day)	Assembly (day)	Last day of the half-week inclusive of 4th day. Little or Humble or Solemn Sabbath (A day of no ceremonial display and no work)
Tamashek or Towarek. (From ancient Lybian or Numidian). Atlas Mountains, Africa.	First day	Second day	Third day	Fourth day	Fifth day	Assembly Day	a-hal es-sabt. The Sabbath Day
Kabyle or Berber. (Ancient Numidian) North Africa	Day the One (First)	Day the Two (2nd)	Day the Three (3rd)	Day the Four (4th)	Day the Fifth	The Assembly Day	ghas or wars assebt The Sabbath Day
Hausa (Central Africa)	The One (1st)	The Two (2nd)	The Three (3rd)	The Four (4th)	The Fifth	The Assembly	assebatu The Sabbath
Urdu or Hindustani (Muhammadan and Hindu, India) (Two names for the days)	One to Sabbath. Sunday	2nd to Sabbath. Moon-day	3rd to Sabbath. Mars	4th to Sabbath. Mercury	5th to Sabbath. (Eve of Juma)	Assembly (day)	sanichar - Saturn shamba - Sabbath
Pashto or Afghan Afghanistan	One to the Sabbath	Two to Sabbath	Three to Sabbath	Four to Sabbath	Five to Sabbath	Assembly (day)	khali - Unemployed-day, Shamba - Sabbath

The table above includes some of the oldest languages known to man. One of these, the Babylonian language, was in use hundreds of years before the Hebrew race was founded by Abraham. That language designated the seventh day of the week as "sa-ba-tu," meaning rest day -- another indisputable proof that the Bible "Sabbath" was not, and is not, exclusively Jewish.

Very few realize that the word "Sabbath" and the concept of resting from work on the seventh day of the week (Saturday) is common to most of the ancient and modern languages of the world. This is evidence totally independent of the Scriptures that confirms the Biblical teaching that God's seventh day Sabbath predates Judaism. The concept of a Saturday holy day of rest was understood, accepted, and practiced by virtually every culture from Babylon through modern times.

In the study of the many languages of mankind you will find two important facts:

1. In the majority of the principal languages the last, or seventh, day of the week is designated as "Sabbath."

2. There is not even one language which designates another day as the "day of rest."

From these facts we may conclude that not only those people who called the last day of the week "Sabbath," but all other peoples and races, as far as they recognized any day of the week as "Sabbath," rested on the seventh day. In fact, it was recorded by the great historian, Socrates, that in his time the whole known world, with the exception of Rome and Alexandria, observed the seventh day of the week.

"The people of Constantinople, and almost everywhere, assemble together on the Sabbath, as well as on the first day of the week, which custom is never observed at Rome or at Alexandria."
Socrates, "Ecclesiastical History," Book 7, chap.19.

Another interesting fact is that the words in the original languages that are used to designate the seventh day of the week as the "Sabbath" have continued to be very similar while the other words have been so changed over time that they are unintelligibel to people of other language groups. This another proof that the Sabbath and the words used to designate the seventh day of the week as the "Sabbath day" originated at Creation in complete harmony with the Biblical record found in Genesis 2:1-3.

Language List

Language
Greek
Latin (Italy)
Spanish (Spain)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Italian (Italy)
French (France)
High German (Germany)
Prussian (Prussia)
Russian (Russia)
Polish
Hebrew
Afaghan
Hindustani
Persian
Arabic
Turkish
Malay
Abyssinian
Lusatian (Saxony)
Bohemian
Bulgarian (Bulgaria)
New Slovenian (Illyria, in Austria)
Illyrian (Dalmatia, Servia)
Wallachian (Roumania or Wallachia)
Roman (Sapin, Catalonia)
Ecclesiastical Roman (Italy)
D'oc. French (ancient and modern)
Norman French (10th -11th Centuries)
Wolof (Senegambia, West Africa)
Congo (West Equatorial Africa)
Orma (South of Abyssiania)
Kazani - TARTAR (East Russia)
Osmanlian (Turkey)
Arabic (Very old names)
Ancient Syriac
Chaldee Syriac (Kurdistan,Urumia,Persia)
Babylonian Syriac (A Very Old Language)
Maltese (Malta)
Ethiopic (Abyssinia)
Coptic (Egypt)
Tamashek (Atlas mountains, Africa)
Kabyle (North Africa, Ancient Numidan)
Hausa (Central Africa)
Pasto (Afghanistan)
Pahlivi (ancient Persian)

Persian (Persia)
Armenian (Armenia)
Kurdish (Kurdistan)
Ndebele (Zimbabwe)
Shona (Zimbabwe)

Miscellaneous Middle Ages Languages
Georgian (Caucasus)
Suanian (Caucasus)
Ingoush (Caucasus)
Malayan (Malaya, Sumatra)
Javanese (Java)
Dayak (Borneo)
Makassar (s. Celebes & Salayer islands)
Malagassy (Madagascar)
Swahili (east equatorial Africa)
Mandingo (west Africa, s. of Senegal)
Teda (central Africa)
Bornu (central Africa)
Logone (central Africa)
Bagrimma (central Africa)
Maba (central Africa)
Permian (Russian)
Votiak (Russian)

Word for Saturday/7thDay
Sabbaton
Sabbatum
S�bado
Sabbado
Sabbato
Samedi
Samstag
Sabatico
Subbota
Sobota
Shabbath
Shamba
Shamba
Shambin
Assabt
Yomessabt
Ari-Sabtu
Sanbat
Sobota
Sobota
Subbota
Sobota
Subota
Sambata
Dissapte
Sabbatum
Dissata
Sabbedi
Alere-Asser
Sabbado or Kiansbula
Zam-ba-da
Subbota
Yome-es-sabt
Shi-yar
Shab-ba-tho
Shaptu

Sa-Ba-tu

Is-sibt
San-bat
Pi sabbaton
A-hal es-sabt
Ghas assebt
Assebatu
Shamba
Shambid

Shambah
Shapat
Shamba
Sabatha
Sabata

Shabati
Sammtyn
Shatt
Hari sabtu
Saptoe or saptu
Sabtu
Sattu
Alsabotsy
As-sabt
Sibiti
Essebdu
Assebdu
Se-sibde
Sibbedi
Sab
Subota
Subbota

Meaning
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath day
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
The Sabbath
Day Sabbath
Day Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Day Sabbath
Sabbath
Day Sabbath
Sabbath Day
Last Day Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
day of the Sabbath
Chief or rejoicing day
Sabbath
Sabbath

Sabbath

the Sabbath
Sabbath
the Sabbath
the Sabbath
the Sabbath day
the Sabbath
Sabbath
(pleasantest day of the week)
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath

Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
day Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
The Sabbath
The Sabbath
Sabbath
The Sabbath
The Sabbath
The Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath
Sabbath