Numbers 15:32

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 35:2-3 : 2 In six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Anyone who does work on it will be put to death. 3 You must 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 a time of cessation from work, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. Whatever you want to bake, bake today; whatever you want to boil, boil today; whatever is left put aside for yourselves to be kept until morning.’”
  • Exod 16:27-28 : 27 On the seventh day some of the people went out to gather it, but they found nothing. 28 So the LORD said to Moses,“How long do you refuse to obey my commandments and my instructions?
  • Exod 20:8-9 : 8 “Remember the Sabbath day to set it apart as holy. 9 For six days you may 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, you, or your son, or your daughter, or your male servant, or your female servant, or your cattle, or the resident foreigner who is in your gates.
  • Exod 31:14-15 : 14 So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you. Everyone who defiles it must surely be put to death; indeed, if anyone does any work on it, then that person will be cut off from among his people. 15 Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD; anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must 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 and Aaron and to the whole community.

    34They put him in custody, because there was no clear instruction about what should be done to him.

    35Then the LORD said to Moses,“The man must surely be put to death; the whole community must stone him with stones outside the camp.”

    36So the whole community took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, just as the LORD commanded Moses.

  • Num 15:31
    77%

    31Because he has despised the LORD’s message and has broken his commandment, that person must be completely cut off. His iniquity will be on him.’”

  • Exod 16:25-30
    6 verses
    75%

    25Moses said,“Eat it today, for today is a Sabbath to the LORD; today you will not find it in the area.

    26Six days you will gather it, but on the seventh day, the Sabbath, there will not be any.”

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

    28So the LORD said to Moses,“How long do you refuse to obey my commandments and my instructions?

    29See, because the LORD has given you the Sabbath, that is why he is giving you food for two days on the sixth day. Each of you stay where you are; let no one go out of his place on the seventh day.”

    30So the people rested on the seventh day.

  • Exod 35:1-4
    4 verses
    73%

    1Sabbath Regulations Moses assembled the whole community of the Israelites and said to them,“These are the things that the LORD has commanded you to do.

    2In six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Anyone who does work on it will be put to death.

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

    4Willing Workers Moses spoke to the whole community of the Israelites,“This is the word that the LORD has commanded:

  • Exod 31:14-16
    3 verses
    73%

    14So you must keep the Sabbath, for it is holy for you. Everyone who defiles it must surely be put to death; indeed, if anyone does any work on it, then that person will be cut off from among his people.

    15Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the LORD; anyone who does work on the Sabbath day must surely be put to death.

    16The Israelites must keep the Sabbath by observing the Sabbath throughout their generations as a perpetual covenant.

  • Matt 12:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10A man was there who had a withered hand. And they asked Jesus,“Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?” so that they could accuse him.

    11He said to them,“Would not any one of you, if he had one sheep that fell into a pit on the Sabbath, take hold of it and lift it out?

  • Lev 24:23
    71%

    23Then Moses spoke to the Israelites and they brought the one who cursed outside the camp and stoned him with stones. So the Israelites did just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Josh 7:15
    71%

    15The one caught with the riches must be burned up along with all who belong to him, because he violated the LORD’s covenant and did such a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”

  • Matt 12:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1Lord of the Sabbath At that time Jesus went through the grain fields on a Sabbath. His disciples were hungry, and they began to pick heads of wheat and eat them.

    2But when the Pharisees saw this they said to him,“Look, your disciples are doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath.”

  • Mark 2:23-24
    2 verses
    70%

    23Lord of the Sabbath Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat as they made their way.

    24So the Pharisees said to him,“Look, why are they doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

  • John 5:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking.(Now that day was a Sabbath.)

    10So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed,“It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”

  • Exod 5:12
    69%

    12So the people spread out through all the land of Egypt to collect stubble for straw.

  • Lev 24:13-15
    3 verses
    69%

    13Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

    14“Bring the one who cursed outside the camp, and all who heard him are to lay their hands on his head, and the whole congregation is to stone him to death.

    15Moreover, you are to tell the Israelites,‘If any man curses his God he will bear responsibility for his sin,

  • Luke 6:2
    69%

    2But some of the Pharisees said,“Why are you doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”

  • Mark 3:2
    69%

    2They watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath, so that they could accuse him.

  • Num 17:9
    69%

    9So Moses brought out all the staffs from before the LORD to all the Israelites. They looked at them, and each man took his staff.

  • Neh 13:15
    68%

    15In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath, bringing in heaps of grain and loading them onto donkeys, along with wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, and bringing them to Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them on the day that they sold these provisions.

  • John 5:16
    68%

    16Responding to Jewish Leaders Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

  • Jer 17:22
    68%

    22Do not carry any loads out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day. But observe the Sabbath day as a day set apart to the LORD, as I commanded your ancestors.

  • Isa 56:2
    68%

    2The people who do this will be blessed, the people who commit themselves to obedience, who observe the Sabbath and do not defile it, who refrain from doing anything that is wrong.

  • Lev 23:3
    68%

    3The Weekly Sabbath“‘Six days work may be done, but on the seventh day there must be a Sabbath of complete rest, a holy assembly. You must not do any work; it is a Sabbath to the LORD in all the places where you live.

  • Ezek 20:13
    68%

    13But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness; they did not follow my statutes and they rejected my regulations(the one who obeys them will live by them), and they utterly desecrated my Sabbaths. So I decided to pour out my rage on them in the wilderness and destroy them.

  • Neh 13:18
    68%

    18Isn’t this the way your ancestors acted, causing our God to bring on them and on this city all this misfortune? And now you are causing even more wrath on Israel, profaning the Sabbath like this!”

  • Luke 6:7
    68%

    7The experts in the law and the Pharisees watched Jesus closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they could find a reason to accuse him.

  • Lev 23:30
    68%

    30As for any person who does any work on this particular day, I will exterminate that person from the midst of his people!

  • Deut 5:12
    68%

    12Be careful to observe the Sabbath day just as the LORD your God has commanded you.

  • Ezek 22:8
    68%

    8You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths!

  • Lev 24:10
    68%

    10A Case of Blaspheming the Name Now an Israelite woman’s son whose father was an Egyptian went out among the Israelites, and the Israelite woman’s son and an Israelite man had a fight in the camp.

  • Exod 16:17
    68%

    17The Israelites did so, and they gathered– some more, some less.

  • Num 25:6
    67%

    6Just then one of the Israelites came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the plain view of Moses and of the whole community of the Israelites, while they were weeping at the entrance of the tent of meeting.