Numbers 15:36

So they all took the man outside the camp and stoned him to death as the Lord had ordered Moses.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

35The Lord told Moses, “This man has to be executed. All the Israelites are to stone him outside the camp.”

37Sometime later the Lord told Moses,

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Cross References

1 Kings 21:13Two bad men came and sat opposite him, and accused him in front of the people, saying, “Naboth has cursed God and the king.” So they took him outside the town and stoned him to death.

Matthew Henry on Numbers 15:31-37

Doom of Presumptuous Sinners. ( b. c. 1490.) 30 But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the Lord ; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people. 31 Because he hath despised the word of the Lord , and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him. 32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day. 33 And they that… Read the whole commentary →

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