Numbers 15:31-35
The Message
30-31 “But the person, native or foreigner, who sins defiantly, deliberately blaspheming God, must be cut off from his people: He has despised God’s word, he has violated God’s command; that person must be kicked out of the community, ostracized, left alone in his wrongdoing.”
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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.”
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Numbers 15:31-33
New International Version
31 Because they have despised(A) the Lord’s word and broken his commands,(B) they must surely be cut off; their guilt remains on them.(C)’”
The Sabbath-Breaker Put to Death
32 While the Israelites were in the wilderness,(D) a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.(E) 33 Those who found him gathering wood brought him to Moses and Aaron and the whole assembly,
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