Exodus 35 · Verse 3

Exodus 35:3

Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
Exodus 35:3, King James Version

Exodus 35:3 in other translations

BSBDo not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”
WEBYou shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.’”
ASVYe shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
YLTye do not burn a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath-day.'
DARBYYe shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings upon the sabbath day.
BBENo fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day.
WebsterYe shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath-day.

What does Exodus 35:3 mean?

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 3 Ye shall kindle no fire - The Jews understand this precept as forbidding the kindling of fire only for the purpose of doing work or dressing victuals; but to give them light and heat, they judge it lawful to light a fire on the Sabbath day, though themselves rarely kindle it-they get Christians to do this work for them.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 35:1-3

The mild and easy yoke of Christ has made our sabbath duties more delightful, and our sabbath restraints less irksome, than those of the Jews; but we are the more guilty by neglecting them. Surely God's wisdom in giving us the sabbath, with all the mercy of its purposes, are sinfully disregarded. Is it nothing to pour contempt upon the blessed day, which a bounteous God has given to us for our growth in grace with…

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Exodus 35:3 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
תְבַעֲר֣וּte.va.'a.Ruyou must kindleH1197
אֵ֔שׁ'EshfireH784
בְּכֹ֖לbe.Kholin allH3605
מֹשְׁבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑םmo.she.vo.tei.Khemdwelling places yourH4186
בְּי֖וֹםbe.Yomon [the] day ofH3117
הַשַּׁבָּֽת\׃\ \פha.sha.Batthe sabbathH7676

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Exodus 35:3

  • Exodus 16:23

    And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

  • Exodus 12:16

    And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.

  • Numbers 15:32-36

    And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron, and unto all the congregation. And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him. And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death: all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp. …

  • Isaiah 58:13

    If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
12:16; 16:23; Nu 15:32-36; Isa 58:13

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Exodus 35:2

    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.

  • Exodus 35:3

    Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

  • Exodus 35:4

    And Moses spake unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, This is the thing which the Lord commanded, saying,

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Exodus 35:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
No encenderéis fuego en todas vuestras moradas en el día del sábado.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Vous n’allumerez point de feu, dans toutes vos habitations, le jour du sabbat.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Ihr sollt am Tage des Sabbaths kein Feuer anzünden in allen euren Wohnungen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Non succendetis ignem in omnibus habitaculis vestris per diem sabbati.