Numbers 15:34

And they bound him in the house of custody; for it had not been explained to them what they should do to him.

Targum Onkelos

In The King James Version

And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.

In Context

33And they who had found him stealing wood brought him to Mosheh and Aharon, and to all the congregation.

35And the Lord said unto Mosheh, The man shall be surely put to death; all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.

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Cross References

Exodus 18:15And Mosheh said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to ask instruction from before the Lord.

Numbers 9:8And Mosheh said to them, Wait, till I shall have heard what will be commanded from before the Lord about your case.

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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