Numbers 15:32

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While the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

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  • Exod 35:2-3 : 2 Work is to be done for six days, but the seventh day will be holy to you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death. 3 You shall not kindle a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.
  • Exod 16:23 : 23 He said to them, "This is what the LORD has said: 'Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy sabbath to the LORD. Bake what you want to bake and boil what you want to boil today, and save whatever is left over to keep until morning.'"
  • Exod 16:27-28 : 27 However, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, but they found nothing. 28 Then the LORD said to Moses, "How long will you refuse to keep my commands and instructions?
  • Exod 20:8-9 : 8 Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your male or female servant, nor your livestock, nor any foreigner residing within your gates.
  • Exod 31:14-15 : 14 You shall keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Anyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among their people. 15 For six days, work shall be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 15:33-36
    4 verses
    92%

    33Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the whole assembly.

    34They kept him in custody because it had not yet been made clear what should be done to him.

    35The Lord said to Moses, 'The man must be put to death. The whole assembly is to stone him outside the camp.'

    36So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

  • Num 15:31
    77%

    31Because they have despised the word of the Lord and broken His commandment, they must be cut off completely. Their guilt remains on them.

  • Exod 16:25-30
    6 verses
    75%

    25Moses said, "Eat it today, because today is a sabbath to the LORD. You will not find any of it in the field today.

    26For six days you are to gather it, but on the seventh day, the sabbath, there will not be any."

    27However, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather, but they found nothing.

    28Then the LORD said to Moses, "How long will you refuse to keep my commands and instructions?

    29Understand that the LORD has given you the sabbath; that is why on the sixth day He gives you bread for two days. Everyone is to stay where they are; no one is to go out on the seventh day."

    30So the people rested on the seventh day.

  • Exod 35:1-4
    4 verses
    73%

    1Moses gathered the entire assembly of the Israelites and said to them, "These are the things that the LORD has commanded you to do."

    2Work is to be done for six days, but the seventh day will be holy to you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on it must be put to death.

    3You shall not kindle a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.

    4Moses said to the entire congregation of the Israelites, "This is what the LORD has commanded.

  • Exod 31:14-16
    3 verses
    73%

    14You shall keep the Sabbath, for it is holy to you. Anyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; whoever does any work on it, that person shall be cut off from among their people.

    15For six days, work shall be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

    16The Israelites are to observe the Sabbath, celebrating it as a perpetual covenant for their generations.

  • Matt 12:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10And a man with a withered hand was there. They asked Jesus, 'Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?' so that they might accuse Him.

    11He said to them, 'Which one of you who has a sheep, if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it out?

  • Lev 24:23
    71%

    23Then Moses spoke to the Israelites, and they brought the one who had cursed out of the camp and stoned him. The Israelites did as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Josh 7:15
    71%

    15The one caught with the devoted things shall be burned with fire, he and all that belongs to him, because he has violated the Lord’s covenant and has done an outrageous thing in Israel.

  • Matt 12:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1At that time, Jesus went through the grainfields on the Sabbath. His disciples became hungry and began to pick heads of grain and eat them.

    2But when the Pharisees saw this, they said to Him, 'Look, Your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.'

  • Mark 2:23-24
    2 verses
    70%

    23One Sabbath, as Jesus was walking through the grainfields, his disciples began to pluck some heads of grain as they went along.

    24The Pharisees said to Jesus, 'Look, why are they doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?

  • John 5:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9Immediately, the man was made well; he picked up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was the Sabbath.

    10So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, 'It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat.'

  • Exod 5:12
    69%

    12So the people scattered all over Egypt to gather stubble to use for straw.

  • Lev 24:13-15
    3 verses
    69%

    13Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

    14Bring out the one who cursed to a place outside the camp, and all those who heard him shall lay their hands on his head, and the entire assembly shall stone him.

    15And speak to the Israelites, saying: If any man curses his God, he will bear the consequences of his sin.

  • Luke 6:2
    69%

    2Some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why are you doing what is not lawful on the Sabbath?"

  • Mark 3:2
    69%

    2They were watching Jesus closely to see if He would heal on the Sabbath, so they might accuse Him.

  • Num 17:9
    69%

    9The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

  • Neh 13:15
    68%

    15In those days, I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps of grain, loading them on donkeys, as well as carrying wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of burdens, bringing them into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So, I warned them on the day they were selling their provisions.

  • John 5:16
    68%

    16Because of this, the Jews began to persecute Jesus and tried to kill Him, because He was doing these things on the Sabbath.

  • Jer 17:22
    68%

    22Do not bring any load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors.

  • Isa 56:2
    68%

    2Blessed is the person who does this, the one who holds fast to it: keeping the Sabbath without profaning it and guarding their hands from doing any evil.

  • Lev 23:3
    68%

    3For six days work is to be done, but the seventh day is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You are not to do any work; it is a sabbath to the Lord in all your dwellings.

  • Ezek 20:13
    68%

    13But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness. They did not follow my statutes and rejected my ordinances—though by them a person will live if they do them—and they greatly profaned my Sabbaths. So I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness to destroy them.

  • Neh 13:18
    68%

    18Didn’t your ancestors do the same, so that our God brought all this disaster upon us and upon this city? Now you are stirring up more wrath against Israel by desecrating the Sabbath!"

  • Luke 6:7
    68%

    7The scribes and Pharisees were watching Him closely to see if He would heal on the Sabbath, so they could find an accusation against Him.

  • Lev 23:30
    68%

    30I will destroy anyone among you who does any work on that day.

  • Deut 5:12
    68%

    12Observe the Sabbath day to keep it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you.

  • Ezek 22:8
    68%

    8You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths.

  • Lev 24:10
    68%

    10Now the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the Israelites, and a fight broke out in the camp between him and a man of Israel.

  • Exod 16:17
    68%

    17The Israelites did as they were told. Some gathered much, and some gathered little.

  • Num 25:6
    67%

    6Then an Israelite man brought a Midianite woman into his family, in the sight of Moses and the whole assembly of Israel, while they were weeping at the entrance to the tent of meeting.