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Exodus 35:3

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

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day. This law seems to be a temporary one, and not to be continued, nor is it said to be throughout their generations as elsewhere,…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

This prohibition is here first distinctly expressed, but it is implied Exo 16:23.

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

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…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Exodus 35:1-19

It was said in general (Exo 34:32), Moses gave them in commandment all that the Lord has spoken with him. But, the erecting and furnishing of the tabernacle being the work to which they were now…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

An addition to the law of Exo 31:12-17. The explicit prohibition is not found elsewhere in the OT.; but it is implied in Exo 16:23.

in all your habitations see on Exo 12:20.

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