Exodus 35:3
in Exodus 35Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”
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ASV
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
KJV
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
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This verse in Exodus 35
Commentary
6 notes on this verseThis site's exposition
Moses assembled the whole congregation of Israel
on Exodus 35:1-3
The building of the tabernacle opens with the Sabbath, where the seven speeches of instruction ended at 31:12 to 17. The one kind of work named is Do not light a fire, and every craft the chapter calls for needs fire.
This site's exposition
Do not light a fire
Albert Barnes notes that the fire command stands here first, though 16:23 implies it when the people bake and boil the day before. Adam Clarke reports that Jewish practice read it as a ban on fire for work and cooking. Verse 2 calls the Sabbath complete rest to the LORD.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
It is a sabbath of rest, but it is rest to the Lord, to whose honour it must be devoted. A penalty is here annexed to the breach of it: Whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Ye 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.
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
This prohibition is here first distinctly expressed, but it is implied Exo 16:23.
The words behind it
7 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| לֹא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → | 5168 times |
| תְבַעֲר֣וּ | tevaaru | you must kindle | H1197 → | 94 times |
| אֵ֔שׁ | ʾesh | fire | H784 → | 378 times |
| בְּכֹ֖ל | bekhol | in all | H3605 → | 5413 times |
| מֹשְׁבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑ם | moshevoteikhem | dwelling places your | H4186 → | 44 times |
| בְּי֖וֹם | beyom | on [the] day of | H3117 → | 2304 times |
| הַשַּׁבָּֽת׃ פ | hashabat | the sabbath | H7676 → | 110 times |
לֹא־not
lo'-H3808 →5168 times
תְבַעֲר֣וּyou must kindle
tevaaruH1197 →94 times
אֵ֔שׁfire
ʾeshH784 →378 times
בְּכֹ֖לin all
bekholH3605 →5413 times
מֹשְׁבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑םdwelling places your
moshevoteikhemH4186 →44 times
בְּי֖וֹםon [the] day of
beyomH3117 →2304 times
הַשַּׁבָּֽת׃ פthe sabbath
hashabatH7676 →110 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Isaiah 58:13If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor…
it leads to
- Jeremiah 17:21–27
This is what the LORD says: Take heed for yourselves; do not carry a load or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.
- Psalms 92:1–2
It is good to praise the LORD, and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High,
- Isaiah 56:2–6
Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the Sabbath without profaning it and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”
- Nehemiah 13:15–22
In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being…
- Revelation 1:10
On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
- Jeremiah 17:21–27
Through
Exodus 16:23He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil…
it leads to
- Leviticus 23:3
For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, a day of sacred assembly. You must not do any work; wherever you live, it is a…
- Exodus 20:8–11
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
- Exodus 31:15
For six days work may be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to…
- Leviticus 23:3
Where this verse is studied
About Exodus
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: The Pentateuch and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.