Biblical Museum Exodus 35:3 You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the sabbath day. In the old time it was a law that each night, at a prescribed hour, a bell should be rung, on hearing which the people were to put out their fires. This a law not about putting fires out each day, but against lighting a fire on one particular day. Why this law? I. TO SHOW THAT ON THE SABBATH, ESPECIALLY, MEN SHOULD ATTEND TO THE INTERESTS OF THE SOUL RATHER THAN TO THE COMPORTS OF THE BODY. II. TO REMOVE FRIVOLOUS EXCUSES FOR NON-ATTENDANCE ON RELIGIOUS WORSHIP. III. TO GUARD THE TIME OF FEMALES OR SERVANTS FROM UNRIGHTEOUS INVASION; and teach men that women had religious rights and duties equally with themselves. IV. TO INCULCATE IN ALL THE DUTY OF SELF-SACRIFICE IN MATTERS RELATING TO THE SOUL AND GOD. (Biblical Museum.) Parallel Verses KJV: Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day.WEB: You shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations on the Sabbath day.'" |
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