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Bigotry:
The Dark Danger

The Sabbath is a prohibition unique to the Jews. We can there-
fore tell that this community referred to in the verse must have
emerged from among the Jews. The verses before the above verses
refer to people who made life difficult for the Prophet Moses (pbuh)
throughout the time in the wilderness, and the description here is
similar to that given in the Torah. After describing the behavior of

this community of deniers that created many problems for the
Prophet Moses (pbuh), we are told that they were told to "remember
the commandments of the Torah and behave accordingly." Nonethe-
less, they turned their backs on that advice. God despises these peo-

ple who broke the Sabbath, who defied the Torah, in other words.
As can be seen, these people are those
who disobeyed the Torah, even

though a covenant was made