The names of the days of the week are derived from pagan mythology which dedicate each of the days of the week to a god or goddess.
1st. Sunday - The day of the sun
2nd. Monday - Moonday was sacred to the moon goddess.
3rd. Tuesday - The day of Tiw, from Mars the god of war.
4th. Wednesday - Woden's day, the furious god
5th Thursday - Thor's day, the god of thunder.
6th Friday - Venus's day the goddess of spring and beauty.
7th Saturday - Saturn's day, the Roman god of agriculture
In the Bible, six of the days are only referred to by number, not by name. For instance, (1st day) "Now when Jesus was risen, early the first day of the week..." Mark 16,9; (2nd day) "And the evening and the morning were the second day. Genesis 1:8; (3rd day)"...and the third day he shall rise again." Mark 10:34; (4th day) "And the evening and the morning were the fourth day." Genesis 1:19; (5th day) "And the evening and the morning were the fifth day." (6th day) Genesis 1:23; "...And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." Genesis 1:31.
The only day of the week in the Bible that has a name is the seventh day. It is called the Sabbath and is so named in the Ten Commandments. It is also the only day that God specifically blessed and hallowed. We read in Exodus 20:11, "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."

Webster's New Twentieth Century Dictionary states under the word Sabbath, "1. the day set apart in the fourth commandment of the decalogue to be observed as a day of rest from all secular labor or employment. This was originally the seventh day of the week (Saturday), as the day on which God rested from the work of creation; and this day is still observed by the Jew and some Christians as the Sabbath."
For Further Study
For more detailed information on the Sabbath day see "The Totally Unexplainable Oddity of the Seven Day Week," Chapter 19.
"Calendar," Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961 ed.,Vol.4, p. 568. Copyright 1961 by Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., Chicago.

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