It looks like we will have to treat the extra-biblical books as secondary after all. Here is a disturbing verse I came across in Yobelim/Jubilees 2: 31 :
And the Creator of all matters barak it, but He did not qadosh all peoples and nations to guard the Shabbath on it, but Yisra'el alone - they alone He permitted to eat and drink and to guard the Shabbath thereon on the earth.
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When I transliterate the verse for myself then it could read: "And the Creator of all matters blessed it, but He did not sanctify all peoples and nations to guard the sabbath on it, but Yisra'el alone".
This sounds to be on track with what the Bible teaches.
Gen 2:3 says that Father blessed the sabbath day: "And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it, because in it He had rested from all His work which God created and made."
So the day itself is blessed and sanctified, but that verse doesn't state who keeps the day, so we need to read other verses.
We then see that Father chooses Israel for Himself as His portion. They are given the Torah and sanctified.
Other nations like Egypt is mentioned to be close to Father's heart, but Israel alone is given the law and commanded to follow it.
When the nation then leaves Egypt, other people cling to them and also become part of Israel. They assimilate and don't remain independent.
This is then again what we see with the wild olive branch being grafted into, Israel. Again, Israel as a nation (not country) is the focus here.
So the concern might come from our own definition of what a gentile and a Hebrew is.
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