A man gathered sticks on the sabbath day This seems to be mentioned here as an instance of sinning presumptuously; and accordingly it is so understood by the Jews. The law of the sabbath was plain and positive, and this transgression of it must therefore have been a known and wilful sin. And from the connection of this verse with the former it may be justly inferred that this man had sinned with a high hand, despising the word of the Lord, and the authority of his law.
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Numbers 15:32
32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.