“ Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day. ”
This prohibition is here first distinctly expressed, but it is implied Exodus 16:23 .
Exodus 35-40. P s. The Construction and Erection of the Sacred Tent. This division of the book is generally recognised as coming from the latest stratum in the Hexateuch. This conclusion can be den...
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day. Ye shall kindle no fire - The Jews understand this precept as forbidding the kindling of fire only for the purpose of doing w...
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations— This seems only to be a specification of the general prohibition, Thou shalt do no manner of work: importing, that all menial offices should c...
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day. Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day. The Sabbath was not a fast day. The Israeli...
XXXV. ITERATION OF THE LAW CONCERNING THE SABBATH. (1-3) Moses, being about to require the people to engage in the work, first, of constructing the materials for the Tabernacle, and then of uprear...
CHAPTER XXXV. THE CONCLUSION. Exodus 35:1-35 - Exodus 40:1-38 . The remainder of the narrative sets forth in terms almost identical with the directions already given, the manner in which t...
the Sabbath and Offerings to God Exodus 35:1-19 Very significantly this chapter commences with the reiteration of the Rest-day. Perhaps the people needed to be reminded that, amid all the din o...
This and the four following Chapter s contain the account of the actual building of the Tabernacle. At the very commencement the Sabbath obligation was again declared. The people were then called on...
The introduction of the precept here concerning the Sabbath, before the introduction of the precept concerning the building of the tabernacle, seems to have been made with this design, to intimate, t...
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 elsewhe...
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day. Ver. 3. Ye shall kindle no fire, ] sc., For the furtherance of the work of the tabernacle: or, at least, that is not of...
Ye shall kindle no fire For any servile work; throughout your habitations No, not for the service of the tabernacle, as for the heating of tools, or the melting of metals, or other things belongi...
THE FREE WILL OFFERING (vs.1-29) It is only in verse 4 to 29 that God asks and receives a free will offering from Israel, and it may seem strange that verses 2 and 3 previously insist once more o...
Orders Concerning the Tabernacle. B. C. 1491. 1 And Moses gathered all the congregation...
This command seems to be only temporary and extraordinary during the present season and condition, and not extending to succeeding generations. For, 1. There are instances of temporary precepts bot...
The Command Comes To Keep The Sabbath ( Exodus 35:1-3 ). Whilst at first this command appears to be on its own and not connected with the context its positioning is in fact very important. For at...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 35:1 . And Moses assembled = vayyakheyl]. This assembling suggests the idea of reuniting and strengthening the bonds of union among “all the congregation,” which, through...
The six last Chapter s of this book are chiefly a repetition of what the Lord had commanded Moses. Hence the substance of them has been anticipated. REFLECTIONS. God who commanded his sanctuary...
Ye shall kindle no fire. The unkindled fire In the old time it was a law that each night, at a prescribed hour, a bell should be rung, on hearing which the people were to put out their fires. T...
THE CONSTRUCTION AND UPREARING OF THE TABERNACLE . EXPOSITION ITERATION OF THE LAW CONCERNING THE SABBATH . The work commanded during the time of Moses' first stay upo...
The Call for Voluntary Offerings
Exodus 12:16 Exodus 16:23 Numbers 15:32 Isaiah 58:13
Ye shall kindle no fire — For any servile work, as that of smiths or plumbers. We do not find that ever this prohibition extended farther.