Numbers 15:32

The Sabbath-Breaker Put to Death

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

Numbers 15:32 in Other Translations

KJV
32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
ESV
32 While the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
NLT
32 One day while the people of Israel were in the wilderness, they discovered a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
MSG
32 Once, during those wilderness years of the People of Israel, a man was caught gathering wood on the Sabbath.
CSB
32 While the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day.

Numbers 15:32 In-Context

30 “ ‘But anyone who sins defiantly, whether native-born or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD and must be cut off from the people of Israel.
31 Because they have despised the LORD’s word and broken his commands, they must surely be cut off; their guilt remains on them.’ ”
32 While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly,
34 and they kept him in custody, because it was not clear what should be done to him.

Cross References 2

  • 1. S Numbers 12:16
  • 2. Exodus 31:14,15; Exodus 35:2,3
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