Exodus 35:3

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Ye shall not kindle a fire, in any of your dwellings, - on the sabbath day.

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day."

Update Bible Version
You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.

English Revised Version
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

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

New English Translation
You must not kindle a fire in any of your homes 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.'"

Amplified Bible
"You shall not kindle 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.'

Berean Standard Bible
Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day."

Contemporary English Version
Don't even build a cooking fire at home on the Sabbath.

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.

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."

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.

King James Version
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout all your habitations vpon 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."

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."

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye shall not burn a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath-day; I am the Lord.

Christian Standard Bible®
Do not light a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.”

Hebrew Names Version
You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the day of Shabbat.'"

Lexham English Bible
You will not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the day of the Sabbath."

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.

New American Standard Bible
"You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings 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 American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath day."

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall not kindle a fire in any of your places of habitation on the sabbath day."

Contextual Overview

¹ And Moses called together all the assembly of the sons of Israel and said unto them, - These are the things which Yahweh hath commanded to do them. ² Six days, shall work be done, but on the seventh day, shall there be to you a holy sabbath-keeping, unto Yahweh, whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death. ³ Ye shall not kindle a fire, in any of your dwellings, - on the sabbath day. ⁴ And Moses spake unto all the assembly of the sons of Israel, saying, This, is the thing which Yahweh hath commanded, saying, ⁵ Take ye from among you, a heave-offering to Yahweh, every one whose heart is willing shall bring it in, even the heave-offering of Yahweh, gold and silver and bronze: ⁶ and blue and purple and crimson and fine linen and goat's-hair; ⁷ and rams' skins dyed red, and badgers skins, and acacia wood; ⁸ and oil for giving light, and aromatic spices for the anointing oil, and for fragrant incense; ⁹ and onyx stones and setting stones, for the ephod, and for the breastpiece. ¹⁰ And, all the wise-hearted among you, shall come in, that they may make, all that which Yahweh hath 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
Lo! then, I, am with thee, so will I keep thee in every place whithersoever thou mayest go, and will bring thee back unto this soil, - For I will not forsake thee until I have done that of which I have spoken to thee.

Genesis 31:3
Then said Yahweh unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers and to thy kindred, - that I may be with thee.

Genesis 31:42
But that the God of my father - The God of Abraham, and the Dread of Isaac - Proved to he mine, Surely even now, empty, hadst thou let me go? My humiliation and the wearying toil of my hands, God had seen, And therefore gave sentence last night!

Genesis 32:7
Then was Jacob greatly afraid, and in distress. So he divided the people that were with him and the flocks and the herds and the camels into two camps,

Genesis 32:24
And Jacob was left alone, - and there wrestled a man with him, until the uprisings of the dawn.

Genesis 35:1
Then said God unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, - and make there an altar, to the GOD who appeared unto thee, when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

Genesis 35:2
And Jacob said unto his house, and unto all who were with him, - Put away the gods of the alien which are in your midst, and purify yourselves, and change your garments;

Genesis 35:5
And they brake up, - and it came to pass that the terror of God, was on the cities which were round about them, so that they pursued not after the sons of Jacob.

Genesis 35:12
And, the land which I gave to Abraham and to Isaac, To thee, will I give it, - And to thy seed after thee, will I give the land.

Genesis 35:13
And God went up from him at the place where he had spoken with 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.