Is There Bible Record of Adam’s Keeping a Sabbath Day?

Genesis 2:1-3 states Jehovah God proceeded to rest as to his works of material, earthly creation after preparing the earth for human to live. Nothing in the Bible record says that God directed Adam to keep the seventh day of each week as a sabbath.

Deut. 5:15: “You must remember that you [Israel] became a slave in the land of Egypt and Jehovah your God proceeded to bring you out from there with a strong hand and an outstretched arm. That is why Jehovah your God commanded you to carry on the sabbath day.” (Here Jehovah connects his giving of the sabbath law with Israel’s deliverance from slavery in Egypt, not with events in Eden.)

When did the sabbath begin? Exodus 16:1, 23-29: “The entire assembly of the sons of Israel finally came to the wilderness of Sin . . . on the fifteenth day of the second month after their coming out of the land of Egypt. . . . [Moses] said to them: ‘It is what Jehovah has spoken. Tomorrow there will be a sabbath observance of a holy sabbath to Jehovah. . . . Six days you will pick [the manna] up, but on the seventh day is a sabbath. On it none will form.’ . . . Jehovah said to Moses: . . . ‘Mark the fact that Jehovah has given you the sabbath.’” (Prior to this, there had been a marking off of weeks of seven days each, but this is the first reference to a sabbath observance.)

If Adam had observed the Sabbath the tradition would have been passed down through generations. However, the Israelites obliviously were not used to observing the Sabbath. Verse 27 brings out Jehovah did not provide food on the seventh day. So those who did not get or prepare enough manna for two days in observance of the sabbath did not have food.
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