List of Sabbath-keeping churches

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The seventh-day Sabbatarians observe and re-stablish the Hebrew Bible's Sabbath commandment, including observances running from Friday sunset to Saturday sunset, similar to Jews and the early Christians. [1] Many of these groups observe the Sabbath by picking up practices from modern Rabbinic Judaism.

List of churches and movements

Sabbatarian Baptists
Sabbatarian Adventists [1]
Sabbatarian Pentecostalists
Sabbatarian British Israelites / (Armstrongism)
Judaizers
Others

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sabbath in seventh-day churches</span> Part of the beliefs and practices of seventh-day churches

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Biblical Sabbath</span> Weekly day of rest or time of worship given in the Bible as the seventh day

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy</span> One of the Ten Commandments

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Sabbatarianism advocates the observation of the Sabbath in Christianity, in keeping with the Ten Commandments.

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