Exodus 35:3

Bishop's Bible

Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitation vpo the Sabboth day.

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the day of Shabbat.'"

King James Version
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

Lexham English Bible
You will not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the day of the Sabbath."

New Century Version
On the Sabbath day you must not light a fire in any of your houses."

New English Translation
You must not kindle a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day."

Amplified Bible
"You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day."

New American Standard Bible
"You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout all your habitations vpon the Sabbath day.

Legacy Standard Bible
You shall not kindle a fire in any of your places of habitation on the sabbath day."

Contemporary English Version
Don't even build a cooking fire at home on the Sabbath.

Complete Jewish Bible
You are not to kindle a fire in any of your homes on Shabbat."

Darby Translation
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings upon the sabbath day.

Easy-to-Read Version
On the Sabbath you should not even light a fire in any of the places where you live."

English Standard Version
You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day."

George Lamsa Translation
You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the sabbath day.

Good News Translation
Do not even light a fire in your homes on the Sabbath."

Christian Standard Bible®
Do not light a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath day.”

Literal Translation
You shall not kindle a fire in all your dwellings on the day of the Sabbath.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye shal kyndle no fyre vpon the Sabbath daye in all youre dwellynges.

American Standard Version
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

Bible in Basic English
No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.'

King James Version (1611)
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations vpon the Sabbath day.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye shall not burn a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath-day; I am the Lord.

English Revised Version
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.

Berean Standard Bible
Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ye schulen not kyndle fier in alle youre dwellyng places bi the `dai of sabat.

Young's Literal Translation
ye do not burn a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath-day.'

Update Bible Version
You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath-day.

World English Bible
You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.'"

New King James Version
You shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings on the Sabbath day."

New Living Translation
You must not even light a fire in any of your homes on the Sabbath."

New Life Bible
Do not make a fire in any of your tents on the Day of Rest."

New Revised Standard
You shall kindle no fire in all your dwellings on the sabbath day.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye shall not kindle a fire, in any of your dwellings, - on the sabbath day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
You shall kindle no fire in any of your habitations on the sabbath day.

Revised Standard Version
you shall kindle no fire in all your habitations on the sabbath day."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath day."

Contextual Overview

¹ And Moyses gathered al the congregation of the children of Israel together, and sayd vnto the: These are the wordes whiche the Lord hath commaunded, that ye shoulde do them. ² Sixe dayes ye shall worke: but the seuenth day shalbe vnto you the holy Sabboth of the lordes rest, whosoeuer doth any worke therin, shall dye. ³ Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitation vpo the Sabboth day. ⁴ And Moyses spake vnto all the congration of the childre of Israel, saying: This is the thyng whiche the Lorde commaunded, saying: ⁵ [Take from amongest you an heaue offering vnto the Lorde: Whosoeuer is of a wyllyng heart, let hym bryng that [heaue offeryng] to the Lorde, namely golde, syluer, and brasse, ⁶ And blewe silke, purple, scarlet, white sylke, goates heere, ⁷ And Rammes skynnes red, & Taxus skynnes, with Sittim wood, ⁸ Oyle for light, and spyces, for annoyntyng oyle, and for the sweete incense. ⁹ And Onyx stones, and stones to be set in the Ephod, and in the brestlap. ¹⁰ And let all them that are wise hearted among you, come and make all that the Lorde hath commaunded.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Exodus 12:16, Exodus 16:23, Numbers 15:32-36, Isaiah 58:13

Reciprocal: Genesis 2:3 - blessed Exodus 16:5 - prepare Exodus 31:14 - doeth Leviticus 23:3 - General Deuteronomy 5:13 - General Mark 2:24 - that Luke 23:56 - rested

Cross-References

Genesis 28:15
And see, I am with thee, and wyll be thy keper in all [places] whyther thou goest, and wyll bryng thee agayne into this lande: For I wyl not leaue thee, vntyll I haue made good that whiche I haue promised thee.

Genesis 31:3
And the Lorde sayde vnto Iacob: turne agayne into the lande of thy fathers, and to thy kynrede, and I wyll be with thee.

Genesis 31:42
And except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the feare of Isahac had ben with me, surely thou haddest sent me away nowe all emptie: but God behelde my tribulation and the labour of my handes, and rebuked [thee] yesternyght.

Genesis 32:7
But Iacob was greatly afrayde, and wist not whiche way to turne him selfe: and deuided the people that was with him, and the sheepe, and oxen, and camelles, into two companies:

Genesis 32:24
And Iacob was left hym selfe alone: and there wrasteled a man with hym, vnto the breakyng of the day.

Genesis 35:1
And God sayd vnto Iacob: aryse, and get thee vp to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an aulter vnto God that appeared vnto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

Genesis 35:2
Then sayde Iacob vnto his householde, and to all that were with hym: put away the straunge gods that are among you, and be cleane, and chaunge your garmentes.

Genesis 35:5
And when they departed, the feare of God fel vpon the cities that were round about them, and they did not pursue the sonnes of Iacob.

Genesis 35:12
And the lande which I gaue Abraham and Isahac, wil I geue vnto thee, and vnto thy seede after thee wyll I geue that lande also.

Genesis 35:13
And so God departed from him, in the place where he had talked with him.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 elsewhere, where the law of the sabbath is given or repeated; it is to be restrained to the building of the tabernacle, and while that was about, to which it is prefaced; and it is designed to prevent all public or private working on the sabbath day, in anything belonging to that; having no fire to heat their tools or melt their metal, or do any thing for which that was necessary; for it can hardly be thought that this is to be taken in the strictest sense, as an entire prohibition of kindling a fire and the use of it on that day, which is so absolutely useful, and needful in various cases, and where acts of mercy and necessity require it; as in cold seasons of the year, for the warming and comforting of persons who otherwise would be unfit for religious exercises, and on the account of infants and aged persons, who could not subsist without it; and in cases of sickness, and various disorders which necessarily require it; and even for the preparation of food, which must be had on that day as on others, the sabbath being not a fast, but rather a festival, as it is with the Jews; and yet this law is interpreted by them in the most rigorous sense: they put kindling a fire among the principal works forbidden on that day x, and that not only to bake bread and boil flesh, as Aben Ezra interprets it here, but to warm themselves with; nay, they think it unlawful to touch an hearth, or a coal of fire, or a firebrand, or anything that may give them any warmth in a cold season; and if, for the sake of infants or aged persons, there is need of a fire or heating a stove, they hire a Christian to do it, or so prepare and order matters the day before that it kindle of itself y; and so Leo Modena z says,

"they do not meddle with any fire, nor touch any wood that is on fire, nor kindle any, nor put it out; nor do they so much as light a candle on the sabbath day: and if the place be cold where they dwell, except they have any stoves, or hot houses, or else have some one that is no Jew to kindle a fire for them; or had so ordered the matter before hand that the fire should kindle of itself at such a time; they must even be content to sit in the cold all that day:''

but here they nicely distinguish and observe, that it is said,

throughout your habitations; their private dwellings, but not the habitation of the Lord, or the house of the sanctuary; and on this score they allow of kindling a fire in Beth Moked a, an apartment in the temple, where a fire was constantly kept for the priests that kept watch to warm themselves at.

x Misn. Sabbat, c. 7. sect. 2. y Buxtorf. Synagog. Jud. c. 16. p. 361. z History of the Rites, &c. of the Jews, par. 3. c. 1. sect. 3. a T. Bab. Sabbat, fol. 20. 1.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

This prohibition is here first distinctly expressed, but it is implied Exodus 16:23.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 35:3. Ye shall kindle no fire — The Jews understand this precept as forbidding the kindling of fire only for the purpose of doing work or dressing victuals; but to give them light and heat, they judge it lawful to light a fire on the Sabbath day, though themselves rarely kindle it - they get Christians to do this work for them.