32And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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. …
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. …
And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none. …
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.
Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 30-36)Here is, I. The general doom passed upon presumptuous sinners. 1. Those are to be reckoned presumptuous sinners that sin with a high hand , as the original phrase is (Num. 15:30), that is, that avowedly confront God’s authority, and set up their own lust in competition with it, that sin for sinning-sake, in contradiction to the precept of the law, and in defiance of the penalty, that fight against…
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