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God commanded the Jewish People to observe the Sabbath and keep it holy as the fourth of the Ten Commandments. The idea of a day of rest comes from the Bible story of the Creation: God rested from creating the universe on the seventh day of that first week, so Jews rest from work on the Sabbath.
This group of colonies had the most diverse populations in colonial America because of the influence of their Polish, English, Dutch, French and German origins.