Numbers 15:32 “While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering…”

Numbers 15:32

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

And while the children of Israel were in the wildernesse, they found a man that gathered stickes vpon the Sabbath day.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

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

Bible in Basic English

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

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Cross references

“they found a man”

Exodus 16:23 Exodus 20:8–10 Exodus 16:27 Exodus 16:28 Exodus 35:2 Exodus 35:3

Exodus 16:23 · BSB

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 what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and kee…

Exodus 20:8–10 · BSB

Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.

Exodus 16:27 · BSB

Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find anything.

Exodus 16:28 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?

Exodus 35:2 · BSB

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 to death.

Exodus 35:3 · BSB

Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”

Also

Exodus 31:14–15

Exodus 31:14–15 · BSB

Keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Anyone who profanes it must surely be put to death. Whoever does any work on that day must be cut off from among his people.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

31He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”

33Those who found the man gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation,

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