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Numbers 15:32

King James Version (KJV)

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Numbers 15:32

Verse 32 of 41

Scripture focus

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

Numbers 15:32 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Numbers 15:32

Theological / Devotional

Gathered sticks. The observance of the seventh-day Sabbath of the creation week was obligatory in the wilderness as in the Holy Land (Ex. 16:27-30), with death as the penalty for profanation (Ex. 31:14, 15; 35:2). In the wilderness, with its warm climate, fires were unnecessary for health, and were not to be lighted on the Sabbath (see on Ex. 16:23; 35:3). This man’s act was clearly presumptuous, therefore an illustration of the type of sin spoken of in Num. 15:30.

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