Numbers 15:32-36

Expanded Bible

A Man Worked on the Sabbath

³² When the ·Israelites [^Lsons/^Tchildren of Israel] were still in the ·desert [wilderness], they found a man gathering wood on the Sabbath day [Gen. 2:2–3; Ex. 20:8–11; 35:2; Deut. 5:13–15]. ³³ Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and all the people. ³⁴ They held the man under guard, because they did not know what to do with him. ³⁵ Then the Lord said to Moses, “The man must surely die. All the ·people [community; congregation; assembly] must kill him by ·throwing stones at [stoning] him outside the camp.” ³⁶ So all the ·people [community; congregation; assembly] took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord commanded Moses.