The Last Scribe

Story scene · The Sabbath · Exodus 20, Exodus 31

The fourth commandment as a game: the voice from Sinai and the day to remember

Stand at the foot of Mount Sinai with a people just brought “out of the house of bondage”, and hear the law spoken. Find the one commandment that begins with “Remember”, and see the tablets “written with the finger of God”.

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No download. Plays in any modern browser on a phone, tablet or computer. Revelation 1 and the Baptism of Jesus are free to try first.

What you will see

One day at Sinai, from the first word to the tablets of stone

You arrive as a Scribe, sent to witness the story and write it down. The scene is one map you can walk end to end, told from Exodus 20:1-17 and Exodus 31:12-18. God is not drawn as a person here. You hear His voice speak the commandments, and on the mountain you hear Him tell Moses what the Sabbath is. Moses stands in the scene, and so does a daughter of Israel who heard the law with her people. Each speaks from their own verses.

Seven things wait to be found and read. The first tells what God said before He gave a single command: who He is, and what He had done for them. Others tell why only one commandment begins with “Remember”, how the Sabbath rest was for the servant, the stranger and the cattle as well as the master, and how the commandment points back to creation. Then come the sign that it is God who makes His people holy, what the Sabbath law meant for Israel as a nation, and the two tablets of stone.

The quest has seven steps and follows the passages in order, from the words before the first command to the tablets given to Moses. When you have seen it all, step into the quiz zone and sixteen questions ask what you saw.

The Fourth Commandment in the game: the map of the story with its people standing where the passage puts them
The game itself, not a mock-up: The Fourth Commandment.

The story, in order

The quest, The Law and the Sign, has seven steps, and they follow the passages in order. Nothing is added to the text; the steps are a way of making sure you miss none of it.

  1. Learn what God said before He gave a single command.
  2. Hear the voice from the mountain.
  3. Find the commandment that begins with “Remember”.
  4. Learn why the Sabbath points back to creation.
  5. Hear what one of the people remembers of the law.
  6. Hear what God called the Sabbath on the mountain.
  7. See the tablets written with the finger of God.

Who you meet

Four people and voices stand in the scene. Each speaks only from their own place in the passages.

  • The Voice of the LORD — God’s voice from the mountain, never a figure on the map, speaking the commandments from Exodus 20.
  • The LORD on the Mountain — God’s voice speaking to Moses on Sinai, calling the Sabbath “a sign between me and you throughout your generations”.
  • Moses — the man on the mountain, who tells you what the LORD said of His sabbaths and of the tablets He gave him.
  • A Daughter of Israel — one of the people at the foot of the mountain, who tells you what she heard: freedom first, and then the law.

What you find

Walk up to any of these and the game reads you the verses it comes from, in the King James Version.

  • Saved First (Exodus 20:1–2)
  • Remember (Exodus 20:8–10)
  • Rest for Everyone (Exodus 20:10)
  • A Memorial of Creation (Exodus 20:11)
  • A Sign That He Sanctifies (Exodus 31:13)
  • The Law of the Nation (Exodus 31:14–15)
  • Two Tablets of Stone (Exodus 31:18)

The fourth commandment

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Exodus 20:8–11, King James Version

Every verse the game quotes is the KJV. Where a character speaks in their own words, the dialogue is written from the passages and checked against our doctrinal rules before release. The about page says plainly how we read the Bible.

Try five of the sixteen

The Fourth Commandment quiz questions, with answers

Five real questions from the The Fourth Commandment quiz, in the game's own words. In the game the options are shuffled every time, and you need 70% to pass.

1. What does God say before He gives the first commandment?

  1. Remember the Sabbath day
  2. Hear, O Israel, the LORD is one
  3. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt
  4. You shall have no other gods before Me
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C. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt God first tells who He is and what He has done. He saved Israel before He asked anything of them.

Exodus 20:2

2. With what word does the fourth commandment begin in Exodus 20:8?

  1. Hallow
  2. Remember
  3. Honor
  4. Keep
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B. Remember “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.” The Sabbath was already known; it was given at creation.

Exodus 20:8

3. Which commandment comes with a promise of long life in the land?

  1. You shall not covet
  2. You shall not steal
  3. Remember the Sabbath day
  4. Honor your father and your mother
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D. Honor your father and your mother “Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”

Exodus 20:12

4. What does the Sabbath show, according to Exodus 31:13?

  1. That Israel was greater than the nations
  2. That I am the LORD who sanctifies you
  3. That Moses was a prophet
  4. That the people had earned their rest
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B. That I am the LORD who sanctifies you It is God who makes His people holy. The Sabbath is a sign of resting in what He does.

Exodus 31:13

5. What did God give Moses when He had finished speaking with him on Mount Sinai?

  1. A rod that became a serpent
  2. A scroll of the history of Israel
  3. Two tablets of stone, written with the finger of God
  4. A golden lampstand
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C. Two tablets of stone, written with the finger of God He gave Moses two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone, written with the finger of God.

Exodus 31:18

Right answers pay 10 XP each and a perfect score pays 50 more. In a room, everyone answers the same quiz and sees how the others did. More on how the quiz works.

Story facts

24
verses from Exodus 20, Exodus 31, every one covered by something you see, hear or read
16
quiz questions, each tied to a verse
4
people and voices to speak with
7
things to find and read
1–6
players in a room; solo play is fine too
KJV
every verse quoted from the King James Version

How to play it

  1. Open the game in your browser and make an account. A child under 13 gives a parent's email instead of their own, and the parent confirms before the child can play with anyone else; see the page for parents.
  2. Play the short intro story in the Archivery, the library where the Scribe finds the Book. It is free and takes a few minutes.
  3. Open the world map and choose The Fourth Commandment. To play with others, start a room and share its code, which looks like SCRIBE-7K4P2Q; up to six people can join from their own devices.
  4. Walk the map, speak with everyone, read everything, then step into the quiz zone.

Free, and with a subscription

The Fourth Commandment is one of the 14 story scenes, in the series The Sabbath. It is part of the subscription ($9.99 a month or $79.99 a year), and the story scenes are open from the first day of it: they do not wait on the road through the books. See pricing.

Free forever, for every player: the intro story, Revelation 1, the story scene The Baptism of Jesus, and four open lands to walk with other players: the City of the Last Days, the Garden of Eden, Judea in the days of Jesus, and Patmos and the Seven Churches. Revelation 1 is a good first chapter to try before you subscribe.

More to play

  • Before: The Creation Sabbath — Stand in Eden at the end of the first week, when man and woman are newly made and God sees that all of it is “very good”.
  • After: The Sabbath Delight — Hear Isaiah “lift up thy voice like a trumpet” to a people who worshipped every day and still did not care for the poor.
  • Every chapter and story with a page: the list of what you can play.

Remember the day.

The Fourth Commandment takes about twenty minutes alone, a little longer with friends in a room.

Start with the free chapters