And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sabbath day.
WEB
While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood 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,
DBT
And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentNumbers — Israel on the move — and Israel on the ground in rebellion. Two censuses bracket thirty-eight wilderness years; God's faithfulness holds where the people's does not.
- Author
- Moses — the wilderness narrator; ‘Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys’ (33:2)
- Date
- The wilderness years, c. 15th–13th century BC