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Exodus 35:3
3You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”
Exodus 35:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
- New International Version (NIV)Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day."
- New King James Version (NKJV)You shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”
Context of Exodus 35:3
1Moses gathered all the congregation of the sons of Israel together, and said to them, “These are the things which the Lord has commanded you to do: 2“For six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the Lord; whoever does any kind of work on that day shall be put to death. You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.” 4And Moses said to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, “This is the thing which the Lord has commanded: 5‘Take from among you an offering to the Lord. Whoever has a willing heart, let him bring it as the Lord’s offering: gold, silver, and bronze,
Read all of Exodus 35Exodus 35:3 word by word
לֹא־תְבַעֲר֣וּ אֵ֔שׁ בְּכֹ֖ל מֹשְׁבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם בְּי֖וֹם הַשַּׁבָּֽת׃ פRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Exodus 35:3
- Exodus 12:16On the first day [of the feast] you shall have a holy and solemn assembly, and on the seventh day there shall be another holy and solemn assembly; no work of any kind shall be done on those days, except for the preparation of food which every person must eat—only that may be done by you.
- Exodus 16:23He said to them, “This is what the Lord has said: ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord’; bake and boil what you will bake and boil [today], and all that remains left over put aside for yourselves to keep until morning.”
- Numbers 15:32Now while the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man who was gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
- Isaiah 58:13“If you turn back your foot from [unnecessary travel on] the Sabbath, From doing your own pleasure on My holy day, And call the Sabbath a [spiritual] delight, and the holy day of the Lord honorable, And honor it, not going your own way Or engaging in your own pleasure Or speaking your own [idle] words,
Commentaries on Exodus 35:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Ye shall kindle no fire - The Jews understand this precept as forbidding the kindling of fire only for the purpose of doing work or dressing victuals; but to give them light and heat, they judge it lawful to light a fire on the Sabbath day, though themselves rarely kindle it-they get Christians to do this work for them.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3This prohibition is here first distinctly expressed, but it is implied Exodus 16:23.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-351. Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel, &c.--On the occasion referred to in the opening of this chapter, the Israelites were specially reminded of the design to erect a magnificent tabernacle for the regular worship of God, as well as of the leading articles that were required to furnish that sacred edifice [Ex 35:11-19]. (See on Ex 25:1-40; Ex 27:1-21; Ex 30:1-31:18).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 35
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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