The category was manna and the clue was “manna fell in the desert every day except this one”
(gigi in her head: The Sabbath, I mean, What is the Sabbath?)
Answer 1: What is Sunday?
Alex: No, I’m sorry.
Answer 2: What is Saturday?
Alex: Yes, Saturday, or the Sabbath.
Now, am I an idiot or did “Saturday” not exist back then? I know today Saturday kind of equals the Sabbath, but 
Well, the Sabbath was the last day of the week. We call the last day of the week “Saturday.” So I can see why it was an acceptable answer, although I think “the Sabbath” is clearer.
Since “Saturday” is based, in part, on the name of the Roman god “Saturn”, I would say it didn’t exist. Which brings up a question: when did we (English speakers) get our current names of the days of the week?
I would think that saturday would be an acceptable response, since that is the day of the week on the Gregorian calendar that the sabbath is on.
Don’t many European countries have Sunday as the last day of the week on the calendar?
Sure it did. The Romans didn’t just make the name “Saturn” up. It’s their version of the Greek god “Cronus”, but the term was applied to a different god before the Romans adopted the Greek system (the god of agriculture).
Oh, as for the OP, I think “Sunday” is wrong. The correct answer is the Jewish Sabbath, which is Saturday (in English). Sunday is the Christian Sabbath. I would have accepted just “the Sabbath”, too.
Do Christians consider saturday or sunday the “sabbath”?
Sunday, unless you’re a Seventh Day Adventist.
Neither, really. Christianity doesn’t really have the notion of the “sabbath”, in the way that the Jews do. We do pay some heed to the Ten Commandments, and most Christians probably interpret “Keep holy the Sabbath day” as “Go to church on Sunday”, but there’s no real equivalence.
Second.
Sure there is. Christians keep the Sabbath “holy” just as much as Reform Jews do. Different denomination have different interpretations, but historically it was considered a sin to work on Sunday for many Christian denominations, even if it’s not considered so today. Where do you think Blue Laws came from?
Saturday sounds right to me. It’s not what they day was called at that time in history, but it identifies the same day.
Genesis refers to the world being created in seven days, so this corresponded to a seven-day week that would have been the calendar at the time of the manna?
I feel really dumb right now.
Hold on, surely The Sabbath begins on Friday at sunset, doesn’t it? So “Saturday” is a wrong answer, isn’t it?
I disagree. While some Christians do refer to Sunday as “the Sabbath,” I’d say that they’re speaking in ignorance. The more precise answer would be to say that the Sabbath was only binding on Israel, and that it no longer applies after the Resurrection. Hence the use of Sunday as the day of worship, to commemorate the Resurrection.
No, because the manna fell during the night, presumably in the early morning hours, and was on the ground when they awoke in the morning. Therefore, Saturday.
I’m pretty sure that’s an American tradition. As I understand it, the holiday a normal day, but here it’s observed from sunset to sunset because American Jews wanted to observe it at roughly the same time it was being observed in Israel.
Exodus 16:24 So they put it aside until the morning, just as Moses had commanded, and it did not stink, nor were there any worms in it. 16:25 Moses said, “Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the Lord; today you will not find it in the area. 32 16:26 Six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”
16:27 On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather it, but they found nothing. 16:28 So the Lord said to Moses, “How long do you refuse 33 to obey my commandments and my instructions? 16:29 See, because the Lord has given you the Sabbath, that is why 34 he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; 35 let no one 36 go out of his place on the seventh day.” 16:30 So the people rested on the seventh day.
So it wouldn’t have fallen overnight “Friday” for the morning of “Saturday”.
I believe it’s celebrated from sundown to sundown around the world.
Marley23No, Jewish days begin at sundown, wherever you are.