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خروج 31:15
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- CondensedBible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Six days: Exodus 31:17, Exodus 16:26, Exodus 20:9, Exodus 34:21, Leviticus 23:3, Ezekiel 46:1, Luke 13:14
the sabbath: Exodus 16:23, Exodus 20:10, Genesis 2:2, Leviticus 23:3, Leviticus 23:32, Luke 23:56, Hebrews 4:9,*Gr.
holy: Heb. holiness
whosoever: Numbers 15:32-36, Jeremiah 17:24-27
Reciprocal: Exodus 23:12 - Six days Leviticus 16:31 - General Numbers 15:35 - The man Matthew 12:2 - Behold Mark 2:24 - that Luke 6:2 - not
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Six days may work be done;.... Allowed to be done by an Israelite, if he would; for this is not a command to work, but a permission or grant to do it; and therefore, seeing they had so many days granted them for their use, it could not be thought hard and unreasonable that God should claim one day in seven for his own use and service, and oblige them to refrain from work on it:
but in the seventh [is] the sabbath of rest; from worldly labour, and was typical of spiritual rest here, and eternal rest hereafter:
holy to the Lord; separated from other days, and entirely devoted to the worship and service of God, and to be kept holy to the Lord in all holy and religious exercises, as hearing and reading the word, praying, praising, c.
whosoever doeth any work in the sabbath day, [he] shall surely be put to death the Targum of Jonathan adds, by casting stones, and so we find that the first transgressor of this law we read of was stoned to death, Numbers 15:35.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The penal law of the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2-3. In the fourth commandment the injunction to observe the seventh day is addressed to the conscience of the people (see Exodus 20:8 note): in this place, the object is to declare an infraction of the commandment to be a capital offence. The two passages stand in a relation to each other similar to that between Leviticus 18:0, Leviticus 19:0, and Leviticus 20:0. It seems likely that the penal edict was especially introduced as a caution in reference to the construction of the tabernacle, lest the people, in their zeal to carry on the work, should be tempted to break the divine law for the observance of the day.
Exodus 31:14
See Numbers 15:32-36. The distinction between the meaning of the two expressions, “to be cut off from the people”, and “to be put to death”, is here indicated. He who was cut off from the people had, by his offence, put himself out of the terms of the covenant, and was an outlaw. On such, and on such alone, when the offence was one which affected the well-being of the nation, as it was in this case, death could be inflicted by the public authority.
Exodus 31:17
Was refreshed - Literally, “he took breath”. Compare Exodus 23:12; 2 Samuel 16:14. The application of the word to the Creator, which occurs nowhere else, is remarkable.