Numbers 15:32 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

While the Israelites were in the desert, they found a man gathering wood on the day of worship.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.

ASV:

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sabbath day.

BBE:

Now while the children of Israel were in the waste land, they saw a man who was getting sticks on the Sabbath day.

DBY:

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day.

ERV:

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sabbath day.

JPS:

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sabbath day.

WBS:

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath-day.

WEB:

While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

YLT:

And the sons of Israel are in the wilderness, and they find a man gathering wood on the sabbath-day,

Numbers 15:32 Cross References

XREF:

Exodus 31:14 'Therefore you are to observe the sabbath, for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among his people.

Exodus 31:15 'For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there is a sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD; whoever does any work on the sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

Exodus 35:2 "For six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a holy day, a sabbath of complete rest to the LORD; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.

Exodus 35:3 "You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath day." (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

15:32 On the sabbath - day - This seems to be added as an example of a presumptuous sin: for as the law of the sabbath was plain and positive, so this transgression of it must needs be a known and wilful sin.

MHC:

15:30-36 Those are to be reckoned presumptuous sinners, who sin designedly against God's will and glory. Sins thus committed are exceedingly sinful. He that thus breaks the commandment reproaches the Lord. He also despises the word of the Lord. Presumptuous sinners despise it, thinking themselves too great, too good, and too wise, to be ruled by it. A particular instance of presumption in the sin of sabbath-breaking is related. The offence was gathering sticks on the sabbath day, to make a fire, whereas the people were to bake and seethe what they had occasion for, the day before, Ex 16:23. This was done as an affront both to the law and to the Lawgiver. God is jealous for the honour of his sabbaths, and will not hold him guiltless who profanes them, whatever men may do. God intended this punishment for a warning to all, to make conscience of keeping holy the sabbath. And we may be assured that no command was ever given for the punishment of sin, which, at the judgment day, shall not prove to have come from perfect love and justice. The right of God to a day of devotion to himself, will be disputed and denied only by such as listen to the pride and unbelief of their hearts, rather than to the teaching of the Spirit of truth and life. Wherein consists the difference between him who was detected gathering sticks in the wilderness on the day of God, and the man who turns his back upon the blessings of sabbath appointments, and the promises of sabbath mercies, to use his time, his cares, and his soul, in heaping up riches; and waste his hours, his property, and his strength in sinful pleasure? Wealth may come by the unhallowed effort, but it will not come alone; it will have its awful reward. Sinful pursuits lead to ruin.

CONC:

Desert Gathered Gathering Getting Sabbath Sabbath-day Sons Sticks Waste Wilderness Wood

Children Desert Israel Israelites Sabbath Sabbath-Day Sticks Waste Wilderness Wood

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