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New Century Version

Exodus 35:3

On the Sabbath day you must not light a fire in any of your houses."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Sabbath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Fire;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Fire;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Sabbath;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Cook;   Fire;   Sabbath;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Exodus, Book of;   Festivals;   Fire;   Habitation;   Sabbath;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Clean and Unclean;   Ethics;   Leviticus;   Sabbath;   Tabernacle;   Text, Versions, and Languages of Ot;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sabbath;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Events of the Encampment;   Sabbath and Feasts;   Tabernacle, the;   Moses, the Man of God;   Law of Moses, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Fire;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Japheth Ha-Levi;   Ketubah;   Lamp, Sabbath;   Pharisees;   Priestly Code;   Sabbath;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the day of Shabbat.'"
King James Version
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
Lexham English Bible
You will not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the day of the Sabbath."
New English Translation
You must not kindle a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day."
Amplified Bible
"You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day."
New American Standard Bible
"You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout all your habitations vpon the Sabbath day.
Legacy Standard Bible
You shall not kindle a fire in any of your places of habitation on the sabbath day."
Contemporary English Version
Don't even build a cooking fire at home on the Sabbath.
Complete Jewish Bible
You are not to kindle a fire in any of your homes on Shabbat."
Darby Translation
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings upon the sabbath day.
Easy-to-Read Version
On the Sabbath you should not even light a fire in any of the places where you live."
English Standard Version
You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day."
George Lamsa Translation
You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the sabbath day.
Good News Translation
Do not even light a fire in your homes on the Sabbath."
Christian Standard Bible®
Do not light a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.”
Literal Translation
You shall not kindle a fire in all your dwellings on the day of the Sabbath.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye shal kyndle no fyre vpon the Sabbath daye in all youre dwellynges.
American Standard Version
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
Bible in Basic English
No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitation vpo the Sabboth day.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.'
King James Version (1611)
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations vpon the Sabbath day.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye shall not burn a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath-day; I am the Lord.
English Revised Version
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
Berean Standard Bible
Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ye schulen not kyndle fier in alle youre dwellyng places bi the `dai of sabat.
Young's Literal Translation
ye do not burn a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath-day.'
Update Bible Version
You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.
Webster's Bible Translation
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath-day.
World English Bible
You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.'"
New King James Version
You shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings on the Sabbath day."
New Living Translation
You must not even light a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath."
New Life Bible
Do not make a fire in any of your tents on the Day of Rest."
New Revised Standard
You shall kindle no fire in all your dwellings on the sabbath day.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye shall not kindle a fire, in any of your dwellings, - on the sabbath day.
Douay-Rheims Bible
You shall kindle no fire in any of your habitations on the sabbath day.
Revised Standard Version
you shall kindle no fire in all your habitations on the sabbath day."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath day."

Contextual Overview

1 Moses gathered all the Israelite community together and said to them, "These are the things the Lord has commanded you to do. 2 You are to work for six days, but the seventh day will be a holy day, a Sabbath of rest to honor the Lord . Anyone who works on that day must be put to death. 3 On the Sabbath day you must not light a fire in any of your houses." 4 Moses said to all the Israelites, "This is what the Lord has commanded: 5 From what you have, take an offering for the Lord . Let everyone who is willing bring this offering to the Lord : gold, silver, bronze, 6 blue, purple and red thread, and fine linen, goat hair 7 and male sheepskins that are colored red. They may also bring fine leather, acacia wood, 8 olive oil for the lamps, spices for the special olive oil used for appointing priests and for the sweet-smelling incense, 9 onyx stones, and other jewels to be put on the holy vest and chest covering of the priests. 10 "Let all the skilled workers come and make everything the Lord commanded:

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 12:16, Exodus 16:23, Numbers 15:32-36, Isaiah 58:13

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:3 - blessed Exodus 16:5 - prepare Exodus 31:14 - doeth Leviticus 23:3 - General Deuteronomy 5:13 - General Mark 2:24 - that Luke 23:56 - rested

Cross-References

Genesis 28:15
I am with you and will protect you everywhere you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you."
Genesis 31:3
The Lord said to Jacob, "Go back to the land where your ancestors lived, and I will be with you."
Genesis 31:42
But the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac, was with me. Otherwise, you would have sent me away with nothing. But he saw the trouble I had and the hard work I did, and last night he corrected you."
Genesis 32:7
Then Jacob was very afraid and worried. He divided the people who were with him and all the flocks, herds, and camels into two camps.
Genesis 32:24
So Jacob was alone, and a man came and wrestled with him until the sun came up.
Genesis 35:1
God said to Jacob, "Go to the city of Bethel and live there. Make an altar to the God who appeared to you there when you were running away from your brother Esau."
Genesis 35:2
So Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods you have, and make yourselves clean, and change your clothes.
Genesis 35:5
Then Jacob and his sons left there. But God caused the people in the nearby cities to be afraid, so they did not follow them.
Genesis 35:12
The same land I gave to Abraham and Isaac I will give to you and your descendants."
Genesis 35:13
Then God left him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day. This law seems to be a temporary one, and not to be continued, nor is it said to be throughout their generations as elsewhere, where the law of the sabbath is given or repeated; it is to be restrained to the building of the tabernacle, and while that was about, to which it is prefaced; and it is designed to prevent all public or private working on the sabbath day, in anything belonging to that; having no fire to heat their tools or melt their metal, or do any thing for which that was necessary; for it can hardly be thought that this is to be taken in the strictest sense, as an entire prohibition of kindling a fire and the use of it on that day, which is so absolutely useful, and needful in various cases, and where acts of mercy and necessity require it; as in cold seasons of the year, for the warming and comforting of persons who otherwise would be unfit for religious exercises, and on the account of infants and aged persons, who could not subsist without it; and in cases of sickness, and various disorders which necessarily require it; and even for the preparation of food, which must be had on that day as on others, the sabbath being not a fast, but rather a festival, as it is with the Jews; and yet this law is interpreted by them in the most rigorous sense: they put kindling a fire among the principal works forbidden on that day x, and that not only to bake bread and boil flesh, as Aben Ezra interprets it here, but to warm themselves with; nay, they think it unlawful to touch an hearth, or a coal of fire, or a firebrand, or anything that may give them any warmth in a cold season; and if, for the sake of infants or aged persons, there is need of a fire or heating a stove, they hire a Christian to do it, or so prepare and order matters the day before that it kindle of itself y; and so Leo Modena z says,

"they do not meddle with any fire, nor touch any wood that is on fire, nor kindle any, nor put it out; nor do they so much as light a candle on the sabbath day: and if the place be cold where they dwell, except they have any stoves, or hot houses, or else have some one that is no Jew to kindle a fire for them; or had so ordered the matter before hand that the fire should kindle of itself at such a time; they must even be content to sit in the cold all that day:''

but here they nicely distinguish and observe, that it is said,

throughout your habitations; their private dwellings, but not the habitation of the Lord, or the house of the sanctuary; and on this score they allow of kindling a fire in Beth Moked a, an apartment in the temple, where a fire was constantly kept for the priests that kept watch to warm themselves at.

x Misn. Sabbat, c. 7. sect. 2. y Buxtorf. Synagog. Jud. c. 16. p. 361. z History of the Rites, &c. of the Jews, par. 3. c. 1. sect. 3. a T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 20. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This prohibition is here first distinctly expressed, but it is implied Exodus 16:23.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 35:3. 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.


 
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