Exodus 35:3

Hebrew Names Version

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

Parallel Translations

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.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitation vpo the Sabboth 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 Moshe assembled all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, and said to them, "These are the words which the LORD has commanded, that you should do them. ² 'Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day there shall be a holy day for you, a Shabbat of solemn rest to the LORD: whoever does any work in it shall be put to death. ³ You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the day of Shabbat.'" ⁴ Moshe spoke to all the congregation of the children of Yisra'el, saying, "This is the thing which the LORD commanded, saying, ⁵ 'Take from among you an offering to the LORD. Whoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, the LORD's offering: gold, silver, brass, ⁶ blue, purple, scarlet, fine linen, goats' hair, ⁷ rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, shittim wood, ⁸ oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the sweet incense, ⁹ shoham stones, and stones to be set for the efod and for the breastplate. ¹⁰ "Let every wise-hearted man among you come, and make all that the LORD has commanded:

Bible Verse Review
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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
Behold, I am with you, and will keep you, wherever you go, and will bring you again into this land. For I will not leave you, until I have done that which I have spoken of to you."

Genesis 31:3
The LORD said to Ya`akov, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."

Genesis 31:42
Unless the God of my father, the God of Avraham, and the fear of Yitzchak, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."

Genesis 32:7
Then Ya`akov was greatly afraid and was distressed: and he divided the people who were with him, and the flocks, and the herds, and the camels, into two companies;

Genesis 32:24
Ya`akov was left alone, and wrestled with a man there until the breaking of the day.

Genesis 35:1
God said to Ya`akov, "Arise, go up to Beit-El, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esav your brother."

Genesis 35:2
Then Ya`akov said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.

Genesis 35:5
They journeyed: and a terror of God was on the cities that were round about them, and they didn't pursue the sons of Ya`akov.

Genesis 35:12
The land which I gave to Avraham and Yitzchak, I will give it to you, and to your seed after you will I give the land."

Genesis 35:13
God went up from him in the place where he spoke 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.