do we or dont we follow the sabbath?

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Hebrews 4:9

(ASV) There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God.

(Darby) There remains then a sabbatism to the people of God.

(GNB) As it is, however, there still remains for God's people a rest like God's resting on the seventh day.

(GW) Therefore, a time of rest and worship exists for God's people.

(ISV) There remains, therefore, a Sabbath rest for the people of God,

(KJV) There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.

(LEB) Consequently a sabbath rest remains for the people of God.

(LITV) So, then, there remains a sabbath rest to the people of God.

(MKJV) So then there remains a rest to the people of God.

(RV) There remaineth therefore a sabbath rest for the people of God.

(YLT) there doth remain, then, a sabbatic rest to the people of God,


G4520
σαββατισμός
sabbatismos
Thayer Definition:
1) a keeping sabbath
2) the blessed rest from toils and troubles looked for in the age to come by the true worshippers of God and true Christians
Part of Speech: noun masculine
A Related Word by Thayer’s/Strong’s Number: from a derivative of G4521

G4521
σάββατον
sabbaton
Thayer Definition:
1) the seventh day of each week which was a sacred festival on which the Israelites were required to abstain from all work
1a) the institution of the sabbath, the law for keeping holy every seventh day of the week
1b) a single sabbath, sabbath day
2) seven days, a week
 
Yes, the fourth commandment sabbath (one day in a cycle of sevens) remains. I wish though, Christians would admit, that one day in seven is all the fourth commandment says. It does not identify a particular day of the week, these did not have names during the Bible narrative. Based therefore, on the text of the fourth commandment only, it cannot be determined if it was Saterday or Sunday.