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Did the Israelites not violate the Sabbath in Numbers 31:24?
After engaging in a battle with the Midianites Moses instructs the the Israelites to wash their clothes and purify themselves on the seventh day.The Seventh day usually was the Sabbath day which ...
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Does the sentence imposed by God, during wilderness wanderings, fit the crime?? The crime: wood gathering on the Sabbath-Numbers 15:32-36
God's no nonsense judgement against working on the Sabbath of being "Stoned to death" seems awfully harsh on the post Exodus, most likely long suffering, wilderness wanderer, who was merely ...
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Did the Sabbath originate in the wilderness per Exodus 16:29?
Exodus 16:29 reads (NKJV, emphasis mine):
See! For the LORD has given you the Sabbath; therefore He gives you on the sixth day bread for two days. Let every man remain in his place; let no man go out ...
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Is the weekly Sabbath nothing but just one of many festivals / holy convocations (Leviticus 23, Numbers 28, 29)?
Leviticus 23:1-3 (NIV) says:
The Appointed Festivals
23 The Lord said to Moses, 2 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘These are my appointed festivals, the appointed festivals of the Lord, ...
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How did they keep warm on the Sabbath day?
Exodus 35:3
Do not light a fire in any of your dwellings on the Sabbath day.
How did they keep warm on the Sabbath day?
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Why were the Sabbath breakers not punished in Exodus 16:27-28?
Exodus 16:27 NIV
27 Nevertheless, some of the people went out on the seventh day to gather it, but they found none. 28 Then the Lord said to Moses, “How long will you[c] refuse to keep my commands and ...
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