You shall kindle no fire in all your dwelling places on the Sabbath day.”
Moses gave them nothing but what God commanded him, nothing more or less, he was faithful as a servant to both God and Israel, standing between them as their messenger. The sabbath came first in his charge because it outranks even the tabernacle work: no stroke of labor on the seventh day, not one, for that holy rest belongs to God alone.
AI summary
Commenting on Exodus 35:1-19
Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day. This law seems to be a temporary one, and not to be continued, nor is it said to be throughout their generations as elsewhere, where the law of the sabbath is given or repeated; it is to be restrained to the building of the tabernacle, and while that was about, to which it...
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.