Numbers 15:32 BSB — MannaFest

Numbers 15:32

While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Basil of Caesarea

PREFACE ON THE JUDGMENT OF GOD 15.32-36 (379)

I find, in taking up the Holy Scripture, that in the Old and New Testament stubbornness toward God is clearly condemned not in consideration of the number or heinousness of transgressions but in terms of a single violation of any precept whatsoever, and, further, that the judgment of God covers all forms of disobedience. In the Old Testament, I read of the frightful end of Achar and the account of the man who gathered wood on the sabbath day.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

They found a man that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath - This was in all likelihood a case of that kind supposed above: the man despised the word of the Lord, and therefore broke his commandment; see Num 15:31. On this ground he was punished with the utmost rigor of the law.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The mere gathering of sticks was not a sinful act and might be necessary for fuel to warm him or to make ready his food. But its being done on the Sabbath altered the entire character of the action. The law of the Sabbath being a plain and positive commandment, this transgression of it was a known and wilful sin, and it was marked by several aggravations.

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Original language & word study

10 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיִּהְי֥וּ	vai.yih.Yu	and they were	H1961 →
בְנֵֽי־	ve.nei-	[the] people of	H1121 →
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →
בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר	ba.mid.Bar	in the wilderness	H4057 →
וַֽיִּמְצְא֗וּ	vai.yim.tze.'U	and they found	H4672 →
אִ֛ישׁ	'ish	a man	H376 →
מְקֹשֵׁ֥שׁ	me.ko.Shesh	gathering	H7197 →
עֵצִ֖ים	'e.Tzim	wood<s>	H6086 →
בְּי֥וֹם	be.Yom	on [the] day of	H3117 →
הַשַּׁבָּֽת׃	ha.sha.Bat	the sabbath	H7676 →

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Exodus 16:23
He 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…
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…
- Genesis 2:2–3
  And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work.
- Exodus 35:2–3
  For six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on that day must be put…

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