Numbers 15:32

World English Bible (2000)

While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 35:2-3 : 2 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death. 3 You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.'"
  • Exod 16:23 : 23 He said to them, "This is that which Yahweh has spoken, 'Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to Yahweh. Bake that which you want to bake, and boil that which you want to boil; and all that remains over lay up for yourselves to be kept until the morning.'"
  • Exod 16:27-28 : 27 It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none. 28 Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?
  • Exod 20:8-9 : 8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 You shall labor six days, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to Yahweh your God. You shall not do any work in it, you, nor your son, nor your daughter, your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your livestock, nor your stranger who is within your gates;
  • Exod 31:14-15 : 14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 15 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

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  • Num 15:33-36
    4 verses
    92%

    33 Those who found him gathering sticks brought him to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation.

    34 They put him in custody, because it had not been declared what should be done to him.

    35 Yahweh said to Moses, "The man shall surely be put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones outside of the camp."

    36 All the congregation brought him outside of the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Num 15:31
    77%

    31 Because he has despised the word of Yahweh, and has broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be on him.'"

  • Exod 16:25-30
    6 verses
    75%

    25 Moses said, "Eat that today, for today is a Sabbath to Yahweh. Today you shall not find it in the field.

    26 Six days you shall gather it, but on the seventh day is the Sabbath. In it there shall be none."

    27 It happened on the seventh day, that some of the people went out to gather, and they found none.

    28 Yahweh said to Moses, "How long do you refuse to keep my commandments and my laws?

    29 Behold, because Yahweh has given you the Sabbath, therefore he gives you on the sixth day the bread of two days. Everyone stay in his place. Let no one go out of his place on the seventh day."

    30 So the people rested on the seventh day.

  • Exod 35:1-4
    4 verses
    73%

    1 Moses assembled all the congregation of the children of Israel, and said to them, "These are the words which Yahweh has commanded, that you should do them.

    2 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Sabbath of solemn rest to Yahweh: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death.

    3 You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.'"

    4 Moses spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, "This is the thing which Yahweh commanded, saying,

  • Exod 31:14-16
    3 verses
    73%

    14 You shall keep the Sabbath therefore; for it is holy to you. Everyone who profanes it shall surely be put to death; for whoever does any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

    15 Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Yahweh. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day shall surely be put to death.

    16 Therefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

  • Matt 12:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10 And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?" that they might accuse him.

    11 He said to them, "What man is there among you, who has one sheep, and if this one falls into a pit on the Sabbath day, won't he grab on to it, and lift it out?

  • Lev 24:23
    71%

    23 Moses spoke to the children of Israel; and they brought forth him who had cursed out of the camp, and stoned him with stones. The children of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • Josh 7:15
    71%

    15 It shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of Yahweh, and because he has done a disgraceful thing in Israel.'"

  • Matt 12:1-2
    2 verses
    70%

    1 At that time, Jesus went on the Sabbath day through the grain fields. His disciples were hungry and began to pluck heads of grain and to eat.

    2 But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, "Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath."

  • Mark 2:23-24
    2 verses
    70%

    23 It happened that he was going on the Sabbath day through the grain fields, and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of grain.

    24 The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?"

  • John 5:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9 Immediately, the man was made well, and took up his mat and walked. Now it was the Sabbath on that day.

    10 So the Jews said to him who was cured, "It is the Sabbath. It is not lawful for you to carry the mat."

  • Exod 5:12
    69%

    12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

  • Lev 24:13-15
    3 verses
    69%

    13 Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

    14 "Bring out of the camp him who cursed; and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

    15 You shall speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'Whoever curses his God shall bear his sin.

  • Luke 6:2
    69%

    2 But some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?"

  • Mark 3:2
    69%

    2 They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

  • Num 17:9
    69%

    9 Moses brought out all the rods from before Yahweh to all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.

  • Neh 13:15
    68%

    15 In those days saw I in Judah some men treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and loading donkeys [therewith]; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all kinds of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day: and I testified [against them] in the day in which they sold food.

  • John 5:16
    68%

    16 For this cause the Jews persecuted Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath.

  • Jer 17:22
    68%

    22 neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the Sabbath day holy, neither do any work: but make the Sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

  • Isa 56:2
    68%

    2 Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast; who keeps the Sabbath from profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil."

  • Lev 23:3
    68%

    3 "'Six days shall work be done: but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no kind of work. It is a Sabbath to Yahweh in all your dwellings.

  • Ezek 20:13
    68%

    13 But the house of Israel rebelled against me in the wilderness: they didn't walk in my statutes, and they rejected my ordinances, which if a man keep, he shall live in them; and my Sabbaths they greatly profaned. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them in the wilderness, to consume them.

  • Neh 13:18
    68%

    18 Didn't your fathers do thus, and didn't our God bring all this evil on us, and on this city? Yet you bring more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath."

  • Luke 6:7
    68%

    7 The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.

  • Lev 23:30
    68%

    30 Whoever it is who does any kind of work in that same day, that person I will destroy from among his people.

  • Deut 5:12
    68%

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

  • Ezek 22:8
    68%

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

  • Lev 24:10
    68%

    10 The son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelite woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.

  • Exod 16:17
    68%

    17 The children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.

  • Num 25:6
    67%

    6 Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.