Exodus 35:2
On six days work may be done, but for you, the seventh day must be a holy day, a Sabbath day of complete rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on that day must be put to death.
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3You must not light a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.”
Cross References
Exodus 23:12During six days you will do your work, but on the seventh day you must rest. Do this so that your ox and your donkey may have rest, and so that your female slave's son and any foreigner may rest and be refreshed.
Exodus 34:21You may work for six days, but on the seventh day you must rest. Even at plowing time and in harvest, you must rest.
Numbers 15:32While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
Luke 13:14But the synagogue ruler was indignant because Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. So the ruler answered and said to the crowd, “There are six days in which it is necessary to work. Come and be healed then, not on the Sabbath day.”
Hebrews 2:2For if the message that was spoken through the angels proved to be so reliable, and every trespass and disobedience receives just punishment,
Matthew Henry on Exodus 35:2-20
Orders Concerning the Tabernacle. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And Moses gathered all the congregation of the children of Israel together, and said unto them, These are the words which the Lord hath commanded, that ye should do them. 2 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be to you an holy day, a sabbath of rest to the Lord : whosoever doeth work therein shall be put to death. 3 Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day. 4 And Moses spake unto all the congregation of… Read the whole commentary →