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Exodus35:1–3

The Sabbath

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Exodus 35:1–3 — The Sabbath. Each verse below carries the full apparatus: the Berean Standard Bible, the vocalized original (tap any word), and a parsed breakdown of every term transcribed from the interlinear. Synthesized commentary, canonical threads, and the reading of Christ gather at the end, over the whole unit.

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Then Moses assembled the whole congregation of Israel and said to them, “These are the things that the LORD has commanded you to do:

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Hebrew — tap a word ↓

mō·šeh ’eṯ- way·yaq·hêl kāl- ‘ă·ḏaṯ bə·nê yiś·rā·’êl way·yō·mer ’ă·lê·hem ’êl·leh had·də·ḇā·rîm ’ă·šer- Yah·weh ṣiw·wāh la·‘ă·śōṯ ’ō·ṯām

Word by word16 · parsed
מֹשֶׁ֗הmō·šehThen MosesH4872
√ Môsheh — Mosheh, the Israelite lawgiverNounpropermasculine singular
Moses — the human convener, but only the mediator; the verbs of authority belong to YHWH. He fronts the sentence because he is the one acting, yet the content is not his.
אֶֽת־’eṯ-H853
√ ʼêth — properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)Direct object marker
וַיַּקְהֵ֣לway·yaq·hêlassembledH6950
√ qâhal — to convokeConjunctive wawVerbHifilConsecutive imperfectthird person masculine singular
The pivotal verb. Hifil of qāhal, “to convoke” — a covenant act, not crowd-management. The same root yields qāhāl, the “assembly,” which the Septuagint regularly renders ekklēsia; the gathering of Israel to hear and obey is the Old Testament seed of the New Testament “church.”
כָּל־kāl-the wholeH3605
√ kôl — properly, the wholeNounmasculine singular construct
עֲדַ֛ת‘ă·ḏaṯcongregationH5712
√ ʻêdâh — a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)Nounfeminine singular construct
Congregation — ‘ēdāh, the formally constituted assembly. The Pulpit Commentary notes that “all” had to be summoned, since all might give and all the skilled might work: this is the whole body called to a common task.
בְּנֵ֥יbə·nê. . .H1121
√ bên — a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etcNounmasculine plural construct
יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לyiś·rā·’êlof IsraelH3478
√ Yisrâʼêl — Jisrael, a symbolical name of JacobNounpropermasculine singular
וַיֹּ֣אמֶרway·yō·merand saidH559
√ ʼâmar — to say (used with great latitude)Conjunctive wawVerbQalConsecutive imperfectthird person masculine singular
אֲלֵהֶ֑ם’ă·lê·hemto themH413
√ ʼêl — near, with or amongPrepositionthird person masculine plural
אֵ֚לֶּה’êl·lehTheseH428
√ ʼêl-leh — these or thosePronouncommon plural
These — the demonstrative ’êl·leh, pointing forward to the specific charge that follows; not a general preface but a deictic finger on the very commands about to be named.
הַדְּבָרִ֔יםhad·də·ḇā·rîmare the thingsH1697
√ dâbâr — a wordArticleNounmasculine plural
The words — had·dᵉḇārîm. Glossed “the things,” but lexically “the words,” the same term that titles the Ten Words. What follows is presented as commanded speech, divine in origin.
אֲשֶׁר־’ă·šer-thatH834
√ ʼăsher — who, which, what, thatPronounrelative
יְהוָ֖הYah·wehthe LORDH3068
√ Yᵉhôvâh — Jehovah, Jewish national name of GodNounpropermasculine singular
YHWH — the covenant name. The grammar is exact: Moses gathered and Moses said, but the LORD commanded. The authority is borrowed, never owned.
צִוָּ֥הṣiw·wāhhas commandedH6680
√ tsâvâh — (intensively) to constitute, enjoinVerbPielPerfectthird person masculine singular
לַעֲשֹׂ֥תla·‘ă·śōṯyou to doH6213
√ ʻâsâh — to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationPreposition-lVerbQalInfinitive construct
אֹתָֽם׃’ō·ṯāmH853
√ ʼêth — properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)Direct object markerthird person masculine plural
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For 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.

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šê·šeṯ yā·mîm mə·lā·ḵāh tê·‘ā·śeh haš·šə·ḇî·‘î ū·ḇay·yō·wm yih·yeh lā·ḵem qō·ḏeš šab·baṯ šab·bā·ṯō·wn Yah·weh kāl- hā·‘ō·śeh mə·lā·ḵāh ḇōw yū·māṯ

Word by word17 · parsed
שֵׁ֣שֶׁתšê·šeṯFor sixH8337
√ shêsh — six (as an overplus beyond five or the fingers of the hand)Numbermasculine singular construct
יָמִים֮yā·mîmdaysH3117
√ yôwm — a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)Nounmasculine plural
מְלָאכָה֒mə·lā·ḵāhworkH4399
√ mᵉlâʼkâh — properly, deputyship, iNounfeminine singular
Work — mᵉlā’ḵāh, occupational labor, business, craft (the same term used of the tabernacle work itself). The point of Benson and Gill: even the holy work of the sanctuary is included in what must cease.
תֵּעָשֶׂ֣הtê·‘ā·śehmay be doneH6213
√ ʻâsâh — to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationVerbNifalImperfectthird person feminine singular
Shall be done — Nifal passive; the weight of the verse falls not on the six days of permitted work but on the seventh’s required rest.
הַשְּׁבִיעִ֗יhaš·šə·ḇî·‘îbut the seventhH7637
√ shᵉbîyʻîy — seventhArticleNumberordinal masculine singular
וּבַיּ֣וֹםū·ḇay·yō·wmdayH3117
√ yôwm — a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, ArticleNounmasculine singular
יִהְיֶ֨הyih·yehshall beH1961
√ hâyâh — to exist, iVerbQalImperfectthird person masculine singular
לָכֶ֥םlā·ḵemyour
Prepositionsecond person masculine plural
קֹ֛דֶשׁqō·ḏešholy dayH6944
√ qôdesh — a sacred place or thingNounmasculine singular
Holiness — qōḏeš standing alone, no noun “day.” Cambridge suspects qōḏeš has been transposed and would read, with Exodus 31:15, “a sabbath of entire rest, holy to Jehovah.” Either way the seventh day is named as sheer set-apartness.
שַׁבַּ֥תšab·baṯa SabbathH7676
√ shabbâth — intermission, iNouncommon singular construct
A Sabbath — šabbāṯ, the noun grown from the verb šāḇaṯ, “to cease” (Genesis 2:2–3). The intermission is the institution.
שַׁבָּת֖וֹןšab·bā·ṯō·wnof complete restH7677
√ shabbâthôwn — a sabbatism or special holidayNounmasculine singular
The pivotal word. šabbāṯôn, the intensive “sabbatism” — one of only ten uses in the Bible, the rare lexeme the Verifier seizes on. Paired with šabbāṯ it spells total cessation, the same emphatic doubling used for the Day of Atonement and the sabbatical year.
לַיהוָ֑הYah·wehto the LORDH3068
√ Yᵉhôvâh — Jehovah, Jewish national name of GodPreposition-lNounpropermasculine singular
כָּל־kāl-WhoeverH3605
√ kôl — properly, the wholeNounmasculine singular construct
הָעֹשֶׂ֥הhā·‘ō·śehdoesH6213
√ ʻâsâh — to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest applicationArticleVerbQalParticiplemasculine singular
Doing — Qal participle of ‘āśāh; “the one who does,” any person, no exception carved out for sacred labor.
מְלָאכָ֖הmə·lā·ḵāhany workH4399
√ mᵉlâʼkâh — properly, deputyship, iNounfeminine singular
ב֛וֹḇōwon [that day]
Prepositionthird person masculine singular
יוּמָֽת׃yū·māṯmust be put to deathH4191
√ mûwth — to die (literally or figuratively)VerbHofalImperfectthird person masculine singular
The theological-legal pivot. yûmāṯ, Hofal of mûṯ: the formula of the death penalty. The gravity is not arbitrary cruelty but a measure of the day’s sanctity — to profane God’s rest is to assault the covenant sign (Exodus 31:13).
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Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.”

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Hebrew — tap a word ↓

lō- ṯə·ḇa·‘ă·rū ’êš bə·ḵōl mō·šə·ḇō·ṯê·ḵem haš·šab·bāṯ bə·yō·wm

Word by word7 · parsed
לֹא־lō-Do notH3808
√ lôʼ — not (the simple or absAdverbNegative particle
Not — lō’, the absolute negative; the form of a permanent prohibition rather than a passing instruction.
תְבַעֲר֣וּṯə·ḇa·‘ă·rūlightH1197
√ bâʻar — to kindle, iVerbPielImperfectsecond person masculine plural
The pivotal word. tᵉḇa‘ărû, Piel plural of bā‘ar, “to kindle.” Barnes and Cambridge agree this prohibition “is here first distinctly expressed, but it is implied” in Exodus 16:23. Kindling fire was the era’s representative manual labor; by naming the smallest fire-making, every fashioning work for the tabernacle (heating tools, melting metal) is forbidden — so Benson and Poole.
אֵ֔שׁ’êša fireH784
√ ʼêsh — fire (literally or figuratively)Nouncommon singular
A fire — ’êš; the single concrete act that stands, by synecdoche, for all the craft-labor of building. Poole: “under one kind… all the rest are comprehended and forbidden.”
בְּכֹ֖לbə·ḵōlin anyH3605
√ kôl — properly, the wholePreposition-bNounmasculine singular construct
מֹשְׁבֹֽתֵיכֶ֑םmō·šə·ḇō·ṯê·ḵemof your dwellingsH4186
√ môwshâb — a seatNounmasculine plural constructsecond person masculine plural
Your dwellings — môšᵉḇōṯêḵem, the private homes. The placement matters: the ban is on domestic, work-related fire, which the later Jewish tradition contrasted with the sanctuary’s maintained fire.
הַשַּׁבָּֽת׃פhaš·šab·bāṯon the SabbathH7676
√ shabbâth — intermission, iArticleNouncommon singular
The Sabbath — haššabbāṯ, the day named as the sentence’s final, defining word. Many cited voices (Benson, Poole, Gill) judge this fire-clause a measure tied to the tabernacle-building season; Keil & Delitzsch read it rather as strengthening the standing Sabbath law so that even sacred work yields to it.
בְּי֖וֹםbə·yō·wmdayH3117
√ yôwm — a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an associated term), (often used adverb)Preposition-bNounmasculine singular construct

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i. The convoked assembly before the work — verse 1

Before a single thread is spun or a single ring of gold is given, Moses does one thing: he convokes. The verb is the Hifil of qāhal — way·yaq·hêl, “he summoned into assembly” — the root that gives Israel the word qāhāl, “assembly,” which the Greek Old Testament renders ekklēsia. The whole ‘ēdāh, the constituted congregation, is gathered, because the work that follows belongs to all of them. The Pulpit Commentary makes the reason plain: “All the Israelites were to be allowed the privilege of making offerings for the tabernacle… and all who were competent might take part in the spinning and the weaving.” John Gill, following Rashi, sets the scene precisely in the wake of reconciliation — Moses “being desirous of setting about the building of the tabernacle… which had been retarded through the sin of the golden calf, and making reconciliation for that.” The forgiven people are assembled to build. And the very first word Moses gives them — Ellicott observes that he “prefaced his requirements by a renewed promulgation of the law of the Sabbath, with additional particularity, and with a new sanction” — is not about gold or cloth, but about rest. Keil & Delitzsch frame the whole sequence: “After the restoration of the covenant, Moses announced to the people the divine commands… He repeated first of all the law of the Sabbath according to Exodus 31:13-17.”

ii. The Sabbath above the sanctuary — verse 2

The astonishing thing about verse 2 is its placement. The most urgent, most sacred building project in Israel’s history is about to begin — and the very first instruction is to stop one day in seven, even from that. The Hebrew is emphatic: not merely “a sabbath,” but šabbaṯ šabbāṯôn, the rare doubled form (only ten occurrences in all of Scripture) — “a Sabbath of complete rest,” a sabbatism. And the day is named, with no noun “day” at all, simply qōḏeš, “holiness” — Cambridge: “Heb. holiness (without ‘day’).” Joseph Benson states the principle in one line that the older expositors never tired of: the seventh day is “work for the tabernacle, but on the seventh day they must not strike a stroke, no, not at the tabernacle work; the honour of the sabbath was above that of the sanctuary.” Gill, again citing Rashi, presses the same: “this admonition concerning the sabbath was given previous to the command of building the tabernacle; to show that that did not drive away the sabbath… or to be broken for the sake of it.” Matthew Poole draws the ranking out: the tabernacle and its vessels “were made for no other use than the service of God… and to teach them the absolute necessity of minding that precept in and above all their ceremonial observations.” The good work of worship does not suspend the rest that worship is for. To profane it is capital: yûmāṯ, “he shall be put to death.”

iii. The new clause: no fire kindled — verse 3

Verse 3 adds something Sinai had not spelled out. Barnes notes it exactly: “This prohibition is here first distinctly expressed, but it is implied Exodus 16:23.” Why fire? Because, the Pulpit Commentary explains, “the kindling of fire in early times involved considerable labour. It was ordinarily affected by rubbing two sticks together” — fire-making was the representative manual work of the age. By forbidding the smallest spark, the law forbids the whole machinery of fabrication the tabernacle would demand. Matthew Poole spells out the application: “You shall kindle no fire for any handiwork throughout your habitation, no, not for the service of this tabernacle, for the heating of any tools, or the melting of any metals.” The cited voices then divide honestly. Poole and Gill read the fire-clause as bound to the building season — Poole: it “seems to be only temporary and extraordinary during the present season,” not enjoined “throughout their generations” as standing Sabbath law is. Gill records the rabbinic hair-splitting on the word môšᵉḇōṯêḵem, “your habitations”: “their private dwellings, but not the habitation of the Lord… and on this score they allow of kindling a fire in Beth Moked.” Keil & Delitzsch take the higher road — the fire-ban “strengthened” the Sabbath law, applying even to the tabernacle work. The text does not finally adjudicate; the unit leaves it weighed, not closed.

Read under Sola Scriptura — this tool’s own fallible reading (⚙)

Read under the rule that Scripture interprets Scripture, three claims in this short unit ask to be tested. First, rest outranks even holy work. The placement is the sermon: at the threshold of the most sacred construction project Israel will ever undertake, the first command is to cease from it one day in seven. Benson’s line is not pious exaggeration but the plain logic of the order — “the honour of the sabbath was above that of the sanctuary.” The building is for God; the rest is God’s. The lesser good never cancels the greater. Second, the assembly precedes the offering. Before Israel gives or builds, Israel is convoked (way·yaq·hêl) — the qāhāl, the assembly that the Greek Old Testament calls ekklēsia. The pattern is gospel-shaped: God gathers a people first, then the gathered people work; worship is corporate before it is industrious. Third, the gravity of the penalty measures the worth of the gift. That breaking the rest is capital (yûmāṯ) is not divine harshness but divine valuation — the Sabbath is the covenant sign (Exodus 31:13), and to trample the sign is to despise the covenant. These are this tool’s readings, offered for weighing against the whole counsel of God; hold fast only what the Word supports.

The first word to a people gathered to build God a house is not “build” — it is “rest.” The honour of the Sabbath stands above the honour of the sanctuary. (a reading, not a verse)

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“A Sabbath of complete rest” → the same doubled formula in Exodus 31:15 verbal / quotation — confirmed

Verse 2 is, by the cited commentators’ own admission, “in the main a repetition of Exodus 31:15” (Ellicott; the Pulpit Commentary: “almost a repetition”). The Verifier confirms this at the lexical level: the rare intensive šabbāṯôn (H7677, only ten occurrences in all of Scripture) appears in both, alongside šabbāṯ, šᵉḇîʻî (“seventh”), and mᵉlā’ḵāh (“work”). Because the linking lexeme is genuinely rare and the two verses are near-verbatim, this rises to a verbal link — Exodus 35:1–3 is Moses’ re-promulgation to the people of what Exodus 31:13–17 first gave on the mountain.

Exodus 35:2 · Exodus 31:15

basis: Verifier (Hebrew↔Hebrew): shared lexemes H7677 shabbâthôwn (RARE — 10 vv), H7676 shabbâth (89 vv), H7637 shᵉbîyʻîy (94 vv), H4399 mᵉlâʼkâh (149 vv). The rare H7677 drives the verbal tier; the verses are near-identical (a re-promulgation of Exodus 31:13-17).

The doubled “Sabbath of complete rest” across the rest-laws verbal / quotation — confirmed

The same rare doubled form šabbaṯ šabbāṯôn binds this command into a family of solemn rest-laws: the weekly Sabbath as first announced (Exodus 16:23), the seventh-year sabbatical rest of the land (Leviticus 25:4), the climactic “sabbath of rest” of the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 23:32), and the comprehensive Sabbath statute of the holiness code (Leviticus 23:3). Because šabbāṯôn (H7677) occurs only ten times in the entire Hebrew Bible, its shared appearance is a strong verbal marker rather than a vague thematic overlap — these texts speak in one another’s exact vocabulary of total, God-ward cessation.

Exodus 35:2 · Exodus 16:23 · Leviticus 23:3 · Leviticus 25:4 · Leviticus 23:32

basis: Verifier (Hebrew↔Hebrew): every pairwise link to Ex 35:2 carries the RARE lexeme H7677 shabbâthôwn (10 vv total) with H7676 shabbâth (89 vv); the lighter overlaps vary by ref (Ex 16:23 adds H6944 qôdesh; Lev 25:4 adds H7637 shᵉbîyʻîy; Lev 23:32 shares only H7677+H7676). The rarity of H7677 alone warrants the verbal tier on each pair; no NT-citation claim is made.

Six days work, the seventh holy → the Fourth Commandment structural / thematic — confirmed

The structure “six days… but the seventh” reaches back to the Decalogue itself (Exodus 20:8–11; Deuteronomy 5:14). Here the shared vocabulary is the common Sabbath stock — šabbāṯ, šᵉḇîʻî (“seventh”), šêš (“six”), mᵉlā’ḵāh (“work”) — but not the rare šabbāṯôn. The Verifier returns these as a shared pattern, not a quotation: the commands restate one rationale in their own words. This is the broad Sabbath motif of the Torah, of which Exodus 35:1–3 is one re-application, addressed to the building of the tabernacle.

Exodus 35:2 · Exodus 20:11 · Deuteronomy 5:14

basis: Verifier (Hebrew↔Hebrew): shared lexemes H7676 shabbâth (89 vv), H7637 shᵉbîyʻîy (94 vv), H8337 shêsh (202 vv), H4399 mᵉlâʼkâh (149 vv) — common Sabbath vocabulary, no RARE marker; a shared pattern, not a quotation.

Moses convokes Israel → Solomon convokes Israel structural / thematic — confirmed

The verb way·yaq·hêl (Hifil of qāhal, “to convoke,” H6950 — only 38 verses) gathers Israel here at the founding of the tabernacle. The same comparatively uncommon verb gathers “all the men of Israel” to Solomon when the temple — the tabernacle’s permanent successor — is dedicated and the ark is brought in (1 Kings 8:2; 2 Chronicles 5:3). The structural rhyme is deliberate at the level of Israel’s sacred architecture: the people are convoked both to build the tent and to consummate the house. This is a motif-and-pattern link, not a quotation; the verb is shared but no citation is claimed.

Exodus 35:1 · 1 Kings 8:2 · 2 Chronicles 5:3

basis: Verifier (Hebrew↔Hebrew): shared lexeme H6950 qâhal (38 vv) links the convoking of Israel for the tabernacle (Ex 35:1) and for the temple dedication (1 Kgs 8:2 / 2 Chr 5:3) — a structural rhyme in Israel's sanctuary history, not a quotation.

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The Sabbath as shadow whose substance is Christ ancient/widely-held

Paul reads the whole Sabbath economy — “a festival or a new moon or a Sabbath day” — as “a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ” (Colossians 2:16–17). The complete cessation commanded here, šabbaṯ šabbāṯôn, the rest that ranks even above the holy labor of the sanctuary, points beyond itself to the rest Christ gives: “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” (Matthew 11:28). The link is cross-Testament (Greek↔Hebrew) and so cannot rest on a shared Strong’s number; it is a typological reading, but a widely-held and apostolically grounded one — the apostle himself names the Sabbath a shadow of Christ.

Exodus 35:2 · Colossians 2:16 · Colossians 2:17 · Matthew 11:28

Lord of the Sabbath — the rest is for man, and the Son is its Lord ancient/widely-held

The death penalty guarding the rest (yûmāṯ) reveals how absolute the day’s claim was — yet Jesus declares “the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath; so the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath” (Mark 2:27–28). The One who as Creator first ceased and hallowed the seventh day (Genesis 2:2–3) is the One who, incarnate, stands over the institution as its Lord and its goal — so that the work that here even the tabernacle must yield to (Benson: “the honour of the sabbath was above that of the sanctuary”) finds its master in the Son. Hebrews completes the figure: the Sabbath-keeping of Israel anticipates the sabbatismos (σαββατισμός, “a Sabbath-rest”) that “remains… for the people of God” (Hebrews 4:9), entered not by ceasing labor for a day but by ceasing from one’s own works through faith in Christ (Hebrews 4:10). The Greek sabbatismos is itself coined on the Hebrew Sabbath vocabulary, but the link remains cross-Testament (Greek↔Hebrew) and cannot rest on a shared Strong’s number; it is offered as a typological reading, ancient and broadly held in the church.

Exodus 35:2 · Mark 2:27 · Mark 2:28 · Hebrews 4:9 · Hebrews 4:10

Apparatus & Provenance

The biblical text is the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain (CC0). Hebrew/Greek text, transliteration, morphology and Strong’s are transcribed from the Berean interlinear (CC0) + Strong’s lexicons (PD); the literal renderings, divergence notes, word notes and all synthesis are this tool’s own work (⚙) — fallible; verify them.

Named voices, quoted verbatim from public-domain works:

  • Albert Barnes, Notes on the Bible (1834)
  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges, — (1880s)
  • Charles Ellicott, Commentary for English Readers (1878)
  • John Gill, Exposition of the Entire Bible (1746–63)
  • Joseph Benson, Commentary on the Old and New Testaments (1810s)
  • Keil & Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament (1860s)
  • Matthew Henry, Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible (1706)
  • Matthew Poole, Annotations upon the Holy Bible (1685)
  • The Pulpit Commentary, Spence & Exell, eds. (1880s)

The biblical text is the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain (CC0). The Hebrew is the Masoretic tradition; transliterations, parses, literal renderings, and the “where the English smooths the Hebrew” notes are this tool’s own work (⚙) — careful but fallible; verify against a lexicon (BDB, HALOT) and a standard grammar.

The named voices are verbatim, contiguous excerpts from public-domain commentaries on Exodus 35:1–3 at BibleHub, attributed in place: Ellicott, Gill, the Pulpit Commentary, Keil & Delitzsch, Benson, Poole, Cambridge Bible, Barnes, and Matthew Henry. Two source spellings are preserved as printed and flagged in the editorial notes: the Pulpit Commentary’s “affected” (for “effected”) at verse 3, and the historical names in Gill (Jarchi = Rashi; Beth Moked = the temple’s fire-chamber, with his Talmud citation, Shabbat 20a).

An honest divergence among the cited voices is reported, not smoothed: whether the new fire-prohibition of verse 3 is a standing Sabbath law or a temporary measure tied to the tabernacle-building season. Poole and Gill argue it is temporary (it is not called a “perpetual statute” nor enjoined “throughout your generations”); Keil & Delitzsch read it as strengthening the permanent Sabbath law. The synthesis leaves the question weighed, not closed, as the text itself does.

The two Christ readings (Colossians 2:16–17; Mark 2:27–28 with Hebrews 4:9) are cross-Testament: Greek standing over Hebrew. By rule they cannot be tiered “verbal,” because no shared Strong’s number can cross from Hebrew into Greek; they are offered as typological readings, ancient and widely held — and in the case of Colossians, named by the apostle himself. Two marks govern everything here: ✦ = a human, public-domain source, quoted and named; ⚙ = machine-generated synthesis, to be verified. “Search the Scriptures daily, whether those things were so.” (Acts 17:11)

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