Numbers 15:32 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. They found a man that gathered sticks upon the Sabbath - This was in all likelihood a case of that kind supposed above: the man despised the word of the Lord, and therefore broke his commandment; see Numbers 15:31. On this ground he was punished with the utmost rigor of the law.

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.