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Numbers 15:32
Numbers 15:32 is verse 32 of Numbers chapter 15, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
King James Version
And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
World English Bible
While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.
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Numbers 15:30–34 · Berean Standard Bible
30 But the person who sins defiantly, whether a native or foreigner, blasphemes the LORD. That person shall be cut off from among his people.
31 He shall certainly be cut off, because he has despised the word of the LORD and broken His commandment; his guilt remains on him.”
32 While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
33 Those who found the man gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation,
34 and because it had not been declared what should be done to him, they placed him in custody.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 16:23He told them, “This is what the LORD has said: ‘Tomorrow is to be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath to the LORD. So bake what you want to bake, and boil what you want to boil. Then set aside whatever remains and keep it until morning.’”
Exodus 16:27Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find anything.
Exodus 16:28Then the LORD said to Moses, “How long will you refuse to keep My commandments and instructions?
Exodus 20:8Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy.
Exodus 20:9Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
Exodus 20:10but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates.
Exodus 35:2For six days work may be done, but the seventh day shall be your holy day, a Sabbath of complete rest to the LORD. Whoever does any work on that day must be put to death.
Exodus 35:3Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”