The oldest labor law in human history is not a labor law at all. It is a creation account. Genesis says God worked six days and rested the seventh, and Exodus 20 turns that rest into a commandment binding on every household, servant, and animal under it. Rest was not a productivity concession. It was built into the order of things before the first economy ever existed. Germany is now debating whether it can still afford to keep that commandment on the books, and losing. . .
