You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the sabbath day.
You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the sabbath day.
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
No fire is to be lighted in any of your houses on the Sabbath day.
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath-day.
You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.'"
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.
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.
This prohibition is here first distinctly expressed, but it is implied Exodus 16:23.
35:3 Ye shall kindle no fire - For any servile work, as that of smiths or plumbers. We do not find that ever this prohibition extended farther.