New Revised Standard Version
When the Israelites were in the wilderness, they found a man gathering sticks on the sabbath day.

Contemporary English Version
Once, while the Israelites were traveling through the desert, a man was caught gathering firewood on the Sabbath.

New American Bible
While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was discovered gathering wood on the sabbath day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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,

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. . . .