All of the following beliefs were held by the Israelites EXCEPT for the second option, that it is important to show respect to God by resting one day a week, This was a Jewish belief, unique at the time. This belief is taken from the book of Genesis, which said that God created the world in six days but rested on the seventh day, so God blessed the seventh day. The Creation week, as it is often called, is also the model from which the Jews took their work week.