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Numbers 15:36

in Numbers 15

So the whole congregation took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him to death with stones; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

KJV

And all the congregation brought him without the camp, and stoned him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.

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This verse in Numbers 15

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

they found a man that gathered sticks

on Numbers 15:32-36

Exodus 31:14-15 and 35:2 had already fixed death for breaking the sabbath, and verse 34 says exactly what was missing, that it was not declared what should be done to him. So the man is held while Moses waits for a ruling, which is the shape of the defiled men at 9:6-8 and of the daughters of Zelophehad at 27:1-11. Jamieson, Fausset and Brown observe that gathering sticks was lawful on any other day of the week, and that the day is the whole of what the case turns on. The narrative stands between the law of presumption and the fringes given to prevent forgetting.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

And that He might increase in them this fear, immediately, by the mouth of offence, the rod of His chastisement was revealed, and after the offence the Chastiser gave them no respite, because their servitude was not worthy of His longsuffering. Above their head the …

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

And all the congregation brought him without the camp,.... What was done by the order of Moses and the seventy elders is said to be done by the whole congregation, though it was by a few persons only the man was actually brought out, who were the proper officers to do such business: and stoned him with stones, and he died: stoned him to death: as the Lord commanded Moses: at the time he consulted him in the sanctuary, which he acquainted the court with, and they immediately ordered the execution, which was accordingly done.

The words behind it

16 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיֹּצִ֨יאוּand they brought out

    vaiyotziuH3318 →1067 times

  • אֹת֜וֹ<obj.> him

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעֵדָ֗הthe congregation

    haedahH5712 →149 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מִחוּץ֙from [the] outside

    michutzH2351 →164 times

  • לַֽמַּחֲנֶ֔הof the camp

    lamachanehH4264 →215 times

  • וַיִּרְגְּמ֥וּand they stoned

    vaiyirgemuH7275 →16 times

  • אֹת֛וֹ<obj.> him

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

  • בָּאֲבָנִ֖יםwith <the> stones

    baavanimH68 →273 times

  • וַיָּמֹ֑תand he died

    vaiyamotH4191 →839 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֛רjust as

    kaasherH834 →5497 times

  • צִוָּ֥הhe had commanded

    tzivahH6680 →494 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • מֹשֶֽׁה׃ פMoses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Joshua 7:25

    “Why have you brought this trouble upon us?” said Joshua. “Today the LORD will bring trouble upon you!” And all Israel stoned him to death. Then they stoned the others and burned their bodies.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 6:18

      But keep away from the things devoted to destruction, lest you yourself be set apart for destruction. If you take any of these, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and…

    • 1 Chronicles 2:7

      The son of Carmi: Achar, who brought trouble upon Israel by violating the ban on devoted things.

    • Leviticus 24:14

      “Take the blasphemer outside the camp, and have all who heard him lay their hands on his head; then have the whole assembly stone him.

    • Deuteronomy 17:5

      you must bring out to your gates the man or woman who has done this evil thing, and you must stone that person to death.

    • Leviticus 20:2

      “Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him.

Where this verse is studied

On this page

Studies1

About Numbers

The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Bronze Serpent, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Numbers: the study guide →Read Numbers 15 →

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Philoxenus of Mabbug, 13 Ascetic Discourses, Discourse 7 -- Second Discourse on the Fear of God.

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