Numbers 15:32-36

The Message

^32-35 Once, during those wilderness years of the People of Israel, a man was caught gathering wood on the Sabbath. The ones who caught him hauled him before Moses and Aaron and the entire congregation. They put him in custody until it became clear what to do with him. Then God spoke to Moses: “Give the man the death penalty. Yes, kill him, the whole community hurling stones at him outside the camp.”

³⁶ So the whole community took him outside the camp and threw stones at him, an execution commanded by God and given through Moses.

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