"Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain
We tend to focus on some of the long list of 'other' things we're commanded to do, but not on the command to rest from all of our doing? It's hard to say which of the two we fail at most miserably, our doing or our resting. It's a verifiable fact that nothing is complete without Jesus. He is the "Author" and the "Completer," the "Beginning" and the "Ending." Everything exists because of Him, and everything is missing something without Him: the thing that supplies true meaning and purpose to all things. This applies to everything.
"Anyone who works on the Sabbath must be put to death," seems like a gross and bizarre overreaction on God's part. In what universe does this punishment fit this crime? It makes
