Numbers 15:32
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And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and had found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day,

they found a man.

Exodus 16:23,27,28 And he said to them: This is what the Lord hath spoken: To morrow is the rest of the sabbath sanctified to the Lord. Whatsoever work is to be done, do it; and the meats that are to be dressed, dress them; and whatsoever shall remain, lay it up until the morning. . . .

Exodus 20:8-10 Remember that thou keep holy the sabbath day. . . .

Exodus 35:2,3 Six days you shall do work; the seventh day shall be holy unto you, the sabbath and the rest of the Lord: he that shall do any work on it, shall be put to death. . . .

Context
A Sabbath-Breaker Stoned
32And it came to pass, when the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and had found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day,33That they brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole multitude.…
Cross References
Exodus 31:14
keep you my sabbath: for it is holy unto you: he that shall profane it, shall be put to death: he that shall do any work in it, his soul shall perish out of the midst of his people.

Exodus 31:15
Six days shall you do work: in the seventh day is the sabbath, the rest holy to the Lord. Every one that shall do any work on this day, shall die.

Exodus 35:2
Six days you shall do work; the seventh day shall be holy unto you, the sabbath and the rest of the Lord: he that shall do any work on it, shall be put to death.

Exodus 35:3
You shall kindle no fire in any of your habitations on the sabbath day.

Numbers 15:33
That they brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole multitude.

Jeremiah 17:21
Thus saith the Lord: Take heed to your souls, and carry no burdens on the sabbath day: and bring them not in by the gates of Jerusalem.

Lexicon
While the Israelites
בְנֵֽי־ (ḇə·nê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

were
וַיִּהְי֥וּ (way·yih·yū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

in the wilderness,
בַּמִּדְבָּ֑ר (bam·miḏ·bār)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4057: A pasture, a desert, speech

a man
אִ֛ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 376: A man as an individual, a male person

was found
וַֽיִּמְצְא֗וּ (way·yim·ṣə·’ū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 4672: To come forth to, appear, exist, to attain, find, acquire, to occur, meet, be present

gathering
מְקֹשֵׁ֥שׁ (mə·qō·šêš)
Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7197: To forage for, straw, stubble, wood, to assemble

wood
עֵצִ֖ים (‘ê·ṣîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6086: Tree, trees, wood

on the Sabbath
הַשַּׁבָּֽת׃ (haš·šab·bāṯ)
Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's Hebrew 7676: Intermission, the Sabbath

day.
בְּי֥וֹם (bə·yō·wm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3117: A day


Additional Translations
While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks on the sabbath day.

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sabbath day.

And the children of Israel were in the wilderness, and they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath-day.

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day.

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks upon the sabbath day.

And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath-day.

While the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the Sabbath day.

And the sons of Israel are in the wilderness, and they find a man gathering wood on the sabbath-day,
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