Exodus 35:3 
Context| NET © | You must not kindle a fire 1 in any of your homes 2 on the Sabbath day.” 3 |
| NIV © | Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day." |
| NASB © | "You shall not kindle a fire in any of your dwellings on the sabbath day." |
| NLT © | Do not even light fires in your homes on that day." |
| MSG © | Don't light any fires in your homes on the Sabbath day." |
| BBE © | No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day. |
| NRSV © | You shall kindle no fire in all your dwellings on the sabbath day. |
| NKJV © | "You shall kindle no fire throughout your dwellings on the Sabbath day." |
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| NET © [draft] ITL | |
| NET © | You must not kindle a fire 1 in any of your homes 2 on the Sabbath day.” 3 |
| NET © Notes |
1 sn Kindling a fire receives special attention here because the people thought that kindling a fire was not work, but only a preparation for some kind of work. The Law makes sure that this too was not done. But see also G. Robinson, “The Prohibition of Strange Fire in Ancient Israel: A Look at the Case of Gathering Wood and Kindling Fire on the Sabbath,” VT 28 (1978): 301-17. 2 tn Heb “dwelling places”; KJV, ASV “habitations.” 3 sn The presence of these three verses in this place has raised all kinds of questions. It may be that after the renewal of the covenant the people needed a reminder to obey God, and obeying the sign of the covenant was the starting point. But there is more to it than this; it is part of the narrative design of the book. It is the artistic design that puts the filling of the Spirit section (31:1-11) prior to the Sabbath laws (31:12-18) before the idolatry section, and then after the renewal there is the Sabbath reminder (35:1-3) before the filling of the Spirit material (35:4-36:7). |
